{"id":109,"date":"2004-01-06T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-06T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/CoolStuff\/minime.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"minime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2004\/01\/06\/minime\/","title":{"rendered":"I Shall Call Him… Mini Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m still watching Steve Jobs give his Keynote at Macworld. He just announced the iPod Mini<\/a>. He stated that they are going after the “high-end ($199)” Flash-based mp3 players, which typically have 256megs of RAM <\/span>(est. 60 songs). The mini will have 4 gigs of RAM<\/span><\/del> memory (est. 1000 songs), will be the size of a business card, will be 1\/2″ think, features the standard iPod interface, and will be compatible with the standard iPod dock. It will cost $249. Ooops.<\/p>\n

This is one slick<\/em> looking piece of hardware, and Jobs stated that $249 vs. the stated competition, i.e. $199 high-end flash players, is the best $50 you’ll ever spend. He did a nice breakdown of the market, showing that 31% is the target competition. But I still think they might have mis-calculated. For another $50, you can get least expensive full-sized iPod<\/a>… which, Jobs announced, is now 15gig: (vs 10gig before) for the same $299. <\/p>\n

Either way, they’ll be in store in Feb, and I do plan to check one out. <\/p>\n

Oh, and they come in colors. <\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> The Tao of Mac<\/a> has a nice summary<\/a> of everything in the keynote.<\/p>\n

Update 2:<\/strong> I may have been giving too short a shrift to the coolness factor. They are wicked cool… but if they had a 2 gig version for $149, I’d buy one for my teenage daughter, so she could use iTunes Music Store. At $249, that’s still a bit high for something a kid may lose… or drop. <\/p>\n

Update 3:<\/strong> I changed “4 gig of RAM<\/span>” to “4 gig of memory”, since I don’t think Jobs mentioned what kind of media is in the iPod mini. My guess is some kind of mini-drive. Flash would be too expensive. <\/p>\n

Update 4:<\/strong> Confirmed – iPod mini uses hard drive storage<\/a>. (via Daring Fireball<\/a>) <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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