mini dissection
On sale for only three days, and already someone has taken an iPod mini
apart and posted photos online [
href="http://www.ipodlounge.com/articles_more.php?id=3059_0_8_0_C">first
site,
href="http://www.ipoding.com/modules.php?set_albumName=album09&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php">second
site]. It continues to amaze me how people will spend $250 on a spiffy
new device like an iPod and then immediately take the chance of rendering
it completely useless.
How often do these people completely destroy their gadgets? All in the
name of web journalism, I guess.
When I saw the iPod
mini in the days after it was announced at Macworld San Francisco in
January, I was mostly unimpressed. Sure, it's smaller (but not
significantly so) than it's predecessors but it costs all of $50 less and
holds 11 GB less music.
Colors are nice, but Apple itself expects to sell mostly the silver color.
I actually think the buttons are better than the iPod biggie (I'm hoping
that monicker catches on). The Menu, Play/Pause, Forward, and Reverse
buttons are integrated in to the touch-sensitive scroll wheel. When you
push one of the four buttons, the wheel pivots inward and activates the
function of the button. Much cooler than the ugly row of buttons on the
iPod biggie.
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