[POLL] iPod or iPod Mini


iPod or iPod Mini Which Do You Want?  

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  1. 1. iPod or iPod Mini Which Do You Want?

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I think everyone wants the 40GB iPod. As for if they can afford it, thats a different poll. :/

bought one today...cost me ?450...

450.00 GBP

United Kingdom Pounds = 818.501 USD

United States Dollars

1 GBP = 1.81889 USD 1 USD = 0.549785 GBP

Hmm...crazy:)) worth it though - kick ass product...go apple:))

It's obvious as to why the price of the mini is so high:

the price of the mini is just a scheme by apple to increase sales of the bigger ipods...many of you have said $50 more for 11 extra gigabytes. Well duh, thats what they want you to think? They just got $50 more dollars out of you. The get more profit from selling the regular ipod, as of now, because the mini's are expensive to produce right now(R & D, production costs, etc.). They would rather you buy the bigger ipods. As time goes on, the cost to apple for producing the mini's will come down and they will pass the price down to the consumer.

neither, I don't see the point of owning one. The only reason I would want 1,000 or 10,000 songs would be if I was going to play them on a stereo. Any point at which I'm taking music with me, 60 minutes is more than enough. And if I don't like a certain CD, I can always just burn another mixed one. I'm not so indecisive that I'd need that many songs with me at one point, or if I did, it would be at my home computer, with a real stereo, not some crappy apple headphones.

hi, i just wanted to no ur opignions, i wanted to know what it would be the best to buy. A mini-disc or mp3 player. i want to be able to put data on it (like game or files) and put some music (in mp3 or from a cd) into it.

could someone anwser me? i dont know what to choose...

:/

hi, i just wanted to no ur opignions, i wanted to know what it would be the best to buy. A mini-disc or mp3 player. i want to be able to put data on it (like game or files) and put some music (in mp3 or from a cd) into it.

could someone anwser me? i dont know what to choose...

:/

get an iPod 15GB all u need.

neither, I don't see the point of owning one. The only reason I would want 1,000 or 10,000 songs would be if I was going to play them on a stereo. Any point at which I'm taking music with me, 60 minutes is more than enough. And if I don't like a certain CD, I can always just burn another mixed one. I'm not so indecisive that I'd need that many songs with me at one point, or if I did, it would be at my home computer, with a real stereo, not some crappy apple headphones.

It's not that I am indecisive, it's just that I have so many songs now I begin to forget what I have. Having them all on a tiny object that can play everything I own anywhere and have them all rated as to what I like is just plain awesome in my opinion (now if I could only afford one ... ;) ).

Full blown iPod as many have already stated. It just makes more sense. The mini just isn't sexy kiddies.

neither, I don't see the point of owning one. The only reason I would want 1,000 or 10,000 songs would be if I was going to play them on a stereo. Any point at which I'm taking music with me, 60 minutes is more than enough. And if I don't like a certain CD, I can always just burn another mixed one. I'm not so indecisive that I'd need that many songs with me at one point, or if I did, it would be at my home computer, with a real stereo, not some crappy apple headphones.

What if you're on a plane or in a car for 9 hours or more? Would you rather have 9 hours worth of music (and then some) right in one little electronic box or have to carry a cd wallet around, along with your cd player?

What if you're on vacation for a week? Same goes, only now you've gotta lug around even more cds.

You can't really be indecisive about your music when you don't have enough music with you to actually make a decision.

I have a 10gb iPod and I use it all the time. In my car, on the plane, on campus. I have my whole music library with me every day while I walk to campus, walk around campus, and walk back. I don't have to think to put new cds in my cd wallet, because it's all on my ipod. I can listen to whatever I want to; i'm not limited to what I decided to bring with me that day.

Also, I see that your post quickly went from a basic argument against HDD based mp3 players to a direct attack against apple.

Are you making an argument against all large-scale digital music players, or are you just taking a jab at Apple?

As others have already said... for $50 more you get alot more for your money... 4GB vs. 15GB? If they lowered the price of the iPod mini to say... $100-$150 then I think it would do really well... at $250 it just doesn't seem like a good deal when you can get 11 extra GB plus a better looking iPod (IMO) for $299

I've got the big one. I want a small one now.

(I really want a 100gb version of the big one - but that doesn't exist yet).

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Q: why should apple sell their 4gb mp3 player for $100-$150. Every other mp3 player in it's "class" (1.5 - 4gb) is selling for between $250. If you're bashing apple for the minipod for being to expensive you should be ragging on Rio for overcharging for the Nitrus, and Creative for is Muvo2.

I'm willing to bet the cost-to-produce isn't as low as we all would like it to be otherwise we'd have a lot of competition at this size - it turns out that $250 is pretty close to the standard price.

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