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Old 09 April 2005, 03:38 PM
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Question mini iPod.

Just browsing and I see them on Amazon for £139?

They have come down in price haven't they

Where is cheapest to buy them?

AND..

I can upload songs from CDs and WinMX/Kazaa without error?

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Old 09 April 2005, 04:57 PM
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Yes all models have come down thing is you can get a 20GB iPod for £209 so £70 more buys five times the capacity what do you do?

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Old 09 April 2005, 05:52 PM
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they are only 126.99 for the 4gb on www.ebuyer.com and its is about £5 for delivery

got my 20 gb from there no problem
Old 09 April 2005, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by chaos.
Where is cheapest to buy them?
AND..
I can upload songs from CDs and WinMX/Kazaa without error?
ta
Prices are pretty well controlled by Apple so only older, end-of-line models or refurbs tend to be available cheaper than list price. Currently £139 for 4GB or £169 for 6GB on the Apple Store. They will play MP3, AAC (open and protected), WAV, AIFF and Apple Lossless. iTunes will rip your CD's to any of these formats. iTunes will also convert any existing, non-DRM protected WMA files you may have to AAC format.
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Originally Posted by class_A
Prices are pretty well controlled by Apple so only older, end-of-line models or refurbs tend to be available cheaper than list price. Currently £139 for 4GB or £169 for 6GB on the Apple Store. They will play MP3, AAC (open and protected), WAV, AIFF and Apple Lossless. iTunes will rip your CD's to any of these formats. iTunes will also convert any existing, non-DRM protected WMA files you may have to AAC format.
£126.99 from www.ebuyer.com is not end of-line or a refurb
Old 09 April 2005, 09:28 PM
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arent they the old models on ebuyer? I got an ecast from them with the offer just before the new mini's came out so they maybe selling old stock.
Old 09 April 2005, 10:34 PM
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Richer sounds are doing the 20GB ipod for 199.99
Old 10 April 2005, 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by renault01
£126.99 from www.ebuyer.com is not end of-line or a refurb
Renault01, the ones on eBuyer for £126 are the old stock. The colours have changed in the new 4GB model, they are more vivid and gold is no longer offered. Also, they now charge over USB2 (previously USB2 was for data transfer only).

Compare the "Mfr #" on eBuyer with the ones listed at http://www.apple.com/uk/ipodmini/specs.html

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Thanks for the info

Whats the best colour then?
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Try your local Dixons or PC World, they might have them on display. Or look in MicroAnvika, inside Selfridges in Manchester or Trafford Centre. I like the blue colour
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Originally Posted by class_A
Try your local Dixons or PC World, they might have them on display. Or look in MicroAnvika, inside Selfridges in Manchester or Trafford Centre. I like the blue colour
yeh im goin trafford tmorra Ill pick one up, might get a pink one
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Edd,
seriously consider getting a full size iPod, ok, it's a bit more expensive, but way more capacity than the "fashion accessory" style iPod mini (you don't want to look like a poof do you? )

As for uploading CD's and MP3's, just get iTunes for Windows, add all the music to the library and then it will copy it to the iPod.
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Originally Posted by Markus
Edd,
seriously consider getting a full size iPod, ok, it's a bit more expensive, but way more capacity than the "fashion accessory" style iPod mini
Nah, 1000 song capacity is plenty for me, never fill that up
Old 10 April 2005, 03:19 PM
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How many CD's and MP3's do you have?

I've not got the biggest collection in the world, but I've got around 6000 songs on my iPod. 98 percent of them being from the CD's the remainder being downloaded mp3's and songs from the iTunes Music Store.

The reason I went for the full size iPod is that I did not want to mess around with having to add/remove songs when I wanted to change the music on the iPod, I wanted my full music collection on there, much handier than carrying arround many MP3 CD's, or even more normal CD's

Other reason is that you can use it as a hard drive, so it's handy for storing the odd bit of data (AVI/dvix files) that I want to take somewhere with me where I'd not take the laptop
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I got me a green mini one today and they are brillient arn't they
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