[NEWS] - Apple launches iPod mini 20 years after Mac

[CougTek]

While I don't think the latest iPod is an item of great interest among our membership, I'll give Apple its minute of glory on our front page since I rarely pay attention to them.

Anandtech[/url]] - 4GB
- 1/3 the size of current iPod
- USB 2.0 and it charges using the USB 2.0 port
- Belt clip
- Arm band
- gold, blue, pink, green, white casings and anodized aluminum
- Mac or PC
- shipping in Feburary, Worldwide in April

And finally the cost...


$249

BTW, did the original Mac has really been released only 20 years ago? That was written in the newspaper here this morning. I thought the Mac was launched in '82. My memory must have failed me once again.

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[Pradeep]

Hmm not a bad price for the storage/size. Of course that depends on whether it appears as a mass storage device in Windows... Add some kind of CF adapter and it could a nice digital photo storage device, those 4GB Microdrives aint cheap.

 

[Mercutio]

I had an ipod for about an hour and a half. It got sold.

The Mac came out in 1984. There was an absolutely fantastic commercial that introduced it. Beat the heck out of the IBM commercials of the time (with a Charlie Chaplin character).

 

[Buck]

For those willing to use Quicktime, the 1984 commercial can be found here.

As far as the Macintosh history goes, the original PC called Macintosh came out in January of 1984. There was a GUI based predecessor called Lisa that came out in 1983, but was not labeled a Macintosh until its second incarnation as the Lisa2/Macintosh XL in 1985. It was a very expensive system when it first came out - about 4 times as much as the Macintosh.

 

[Adcadet]

the lady who threw the sledge hammer - was she wearing an iPOD on her shorts?

 

[SteveC]

the lady who threw the sledge hammer - was she wearing an iPOD on her shorts?

Yes. They digitally added it for the 20th anniversary of the commercial.