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Monday, February 23, 2004

Ipod Mini price detracts from benefits

Contra Costa Times: "Cool, colorful and too expensive. That's my five-word mini-review of Apple Computer's new $249 iPod Mini portable music player ... Apple's 15-gigabyte iPod sells for $299, offering almost four times the capacity for just $50 more ... Competitors are pushing the price barrier even harder. The 15-gigabyte Dell Digital Music Player, for example, was on sale last week at $224, down from the regular $249. Creative Labs sells its 30-gigabyte Nomad Zen Extra for about $250 ... The other concern is whether the Mini is prone to locking up. My Mini froze, responding to none of its controls, for no apparent reason while I was demonstrating it to a colleague. I had to perform a reset on the Mini, a button-pushing process explained in the User's Guide. A recent review in the Wall Street Journal noted the same problem."

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