Apple 'to launch £51 iPod'
 

Love the fact it crashed www.Themacmind.com

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/b...d85370?source=

APPLE Computer will launch a stripped-down version of its popular iPod music player for just $99 (£51) next year, according to an industry report.

Themacmind.com website reported that the virtually indestructible iPod Flash will use an energy-efficient flash memory to hold up to 250 songs.

The iPod and the iPod Mini both use disk drives, which have moving parts and use more battery power than a flash memory, to store the music. Such was the interest in Themacmind. com's apparent details of Apple's hottest new offering that its website crashed.

Apple is expected to announce the flash-based iPod at its Macworld conference on 11 January.

Themacmind.com said the new device will have no screen, and is intended to be worn around the neck.

It will be smaller than a business card and about the same size as an iPod Mini, it said.

Re: Apple 'to launch £51 iPod'
 

i read about this last night, ill see if i can dig out the link as there were leaked pictures of it.

Re: Apple 'to launch £51 iPod'
 

I think I will stick with my Sony Atract3Plus CD player which can store about 500-600 tracks on one CD without hardly any quality loss. It also has a nice screen and an in-line controller which ALSO has a screen on it :p:

Re: Apple 'to launch £51 iPod'
 

:clap:

Well done Apple, if this news is true. Their product development team is very impressive and they're doing well to capitalise on what is becoming an incredibly powerful brand.

Re: Apple 'to launch £51 iPod'
 

I'll bet a month's wages it WON'T be £51

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Yep, more like £80 probably, if the price difference between UK and USA is similar to the tracks for sale on iTunes. But I suppose it would also depend on the cost of comparable flash-based mp3 players already available in the UK.

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I don't think it'll be £80 either, in fact, I sincerely doubt it'll be $99 on release, this is Apple we're talking about. We'll have to wait and see, if it IS less than £100 I'll buy one, if it isn't I won't bother wasting my money on it and spend the extra £60 on a Creative Zen.

Re: Apple 'to launch £51 iPod'
 

Here is a picture....

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Well for a start it will be £51 plus import duty and VAT. VAT on £51 is almost £10. Import duties on electronics can be up to 20%.
Secondly the £51 comes from the current 4 year high 4/£ rate of 1.94. You can bet Apple will not be using that rate when they come to workout prices, but will put some padding in for exchange rate fluctuations.
Finally, the $99/£51 is to get them to US soil. There are probably additional costs of getting them to the UK.
So £80 sounds about right.

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Assuming it's 512mb that's undercutting all of the cheap japanese mp3 players in that market range, pie in the sky ..... and if it's 256mb it's not going to be worth buying as there are hundreds of different mp3 players WITH displays that you could buy cheaper.

The addition of firewire to it to me seems a bit pointless, surely transfers will be only as fast as the flash memory it uses?

Re: Apple 'to launch £51 iPod'
 

First paragraph - we'll have to wait and see I guess.

Second paragraph, well thats more of a Mac connectivity thing. Macs like their drives connected by firewire not USB, hence firewire.

[Merged] New Mac Mini/iPod
 

I'd heard loads of talk about it, but here's the spec and some pics of the new sub $500 Apple Mac Mini.....

http://www.apple.com/macmini/

A couple of years ago I'd have never considered a Mac, but my opinion is changing. I even almost like what I've seen of OS X now!

Re: Details of New Apple Mac Mini
 

Ill be getting one of these, Id heard the rumours but now its confirmed this will definately grace my computer desk.

How fantastic though to fit that hardware into that which is little more than a thick CD Walkman.

Only Apple.

Re: Details of New Apple Mac Mini
 

I dont buy computers for the aesthetics of the case...i buy it for performance. Macs dont offer that.

:Peaceman:

Re: Details of New Apple Mac Mini
 

jtwn are you serious? Apple machines perform amazing compared to the same spec x86 systems.

they were just too damn expensive before, and its not for the aesthetics of the case although all of there stuff does look damn sexy.

I will definately get a machine running OS-X excellent :D