Heres a blank template for all these authors, to make the awarding of whatever of the year to an Apple product:

"Well, Apple has out done themselves. The _____ is a fantastic _____, with out a doubt the best ______ on the market. Its starting price of ______ may be a bit steep, but is a great value. It out does _____, _____, and the rest of its competitors. Well designed and only _______ by ______ inches in size, the ______ is among the (smallest)/(biggest) on the market. Steve Jobs and crew have really created a fantasitc ______, which is why we are awarding _____ our _____ of the year award."

Give the gift that just keeps dying. iPod still suffering from quality problems.
Check the facts:

http://www.ipodlounge.com/forums/showthread.php?s=776adc71098d2cb48f23a7dc33c48fad&threadid=58675

http://www.ipodlounge.com/forums/showthread.php?s=776adc71098d2cb48f23a7dc33c48fad&threadid=796

Out of the 4.5M or so iPods sold in 2004, RC can come up with reports of defects in 30 or so units. Clearly people should steer clear of this ticking time bomb and get a Dell DJ instead.

Looking at the Dell DJ Support Board makes it even clearer that it is the perfect product with 100% satisfied customers.

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John F. Braun wrote:

Looking at the Dell DJ Support Board makes it even clearer that it is the perfect product with 100% satisfied customers.

Looking at the dell support site It seems that you aren't supposed to run or drive without the DJ being 100% cushioned from any bumps or shaking. Hard drive failures are a regular thing for the DJ apparently. I run with my iPod on my belt on a regular basis and it gets shaken a lot. I've never had a problem with my iPod at all.

I normally don't respond to RC's post, but I need to drop my two cents in here. The iPod is a complicated machine with moving parts. There are very few products that are garunteed to never, ever, ever break.
A: Old school metal Tonka trucks
B: Legos
C: Schwinn bikes

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AFCdtLoeb wrote:
Heres a blank template for all these authors, to make the awarding of whatever of the year to an Apple product:

"Well, Apple has out done themselves. The _____ is a fantastic _____, with out a doubt the best ______ on the market. Its starting price of ______ may be a bit steep, but is a great value. It out does _____, _____, and the rest of its competitors. Well designed and only _______ by ______ inches in size, the ______ is among the (smallest)/(biggest) on the market. Steve Jobs and crew have really created a fantasitc ______, which is why we are awarding _____ our _____ of the year award."

... it should be $199.

I'm sure that'll happen soon enough, since probably even Apple realizes that that's the natural price point for it, but it would've been nice to have seen $199 before Xmas, because then the Mini would've blown everything else off the market with extreme prejudice, and generated an even bigger buzz than it has

Yeah, I know... Hitachi can't make the drives fast enough. Well no, thats mostly in the past, they've really ramped up production in the past quarter.

But yeah, the Mini is pretty much perfect- my last remaining complaint with it was the menus (not as intuitive as on its big brother iPods), which Apple fixed with the 1.2 Update for the Mini about three weeks ago.

I guess I could cry about how some mini-HD players on the market are 5 GB instead of the Mini's 4 GB, but I can't- Apple's design just blows those other players away, and the Mini should be getting a 5 GB drive soon enough. Oh wait, the Mini's COLORS aren't all that great- silver's nice, but most of the other colors look too 'pastel', even the blue. Yargh.

So, ok, Mini needs:

new, less pastel colors (keep the silver though)
+ 5 GB drive
+ $199 price
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= Perfect.

You really should quit spamming the forum.