{"id":2111,"date":"2004-01-08T18:54:16","date_gmt":"2004-01-09T10:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/09\/about-that-ipod-mini\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:00:24","slug":"about-that-ipod-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/08\/about-that-ipod-mini\/","title":{"rendered":"About that iPod mini"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11754,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/ipodmini&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090820162442\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/ipodmini\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 18:52:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 12:37:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 15:31:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 22:29:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 22:29:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>When Steve Jobs made the announcement of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipodmini\/\" title=\"Apple - iPod - iPod mini\">iPod mini<\/a> during the Macworld SF keynote, I <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/macworld_sf_200.html\" title=\"Macworld SF 2004\">wasn&#8217;t overly impressed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8230;the biggest news on the iPod mini will be the price &#8212; no matter how happy people are about having the smaller player available, and no matter how cool it is, too many people were hoping for the \\$100 price point. At this point, the 15Gb full-size iPod is only \\$50 more than the 4Gb iPod mini&#8230;is this really going to go over well? Only time will tell, I suppose, but I have to say that I&#8217;m fairly skeptical. It&#8217;ll be a bit sketchy as to whether the smaller form factor and colors will be enough of a draw to offset the reduced capacity.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After thinking it over for a few days, though, I think I need to revise that.<\/p>\n<p>See, I currently have a 2nd generation 10Gb iPod, which I bought for \\$399 (it was the midrange model at the time I bought it). I also have an unusually large music collection: upwards of 1200 CDs, which will take up somewhere upwards of 80Gb of space once it&#8217;s all ripped onto my computer. Even if I had the money to spring for the top-of-the-line iPod, at 40Gb it would still hold less than half of my entire music library, so I&#8217;m not in a position of being able to carry around my entire music collection with me at all times.<\/p>\n<p>Because of that, I&#8217;ve been looking at how I <em>do<\/em> use my iPod &#8212; and, quite simply, I really don&#8217;t use much more than a quarter of the 10Gb that I have available to me. I&#8217;ve gone into my listening habits in more detail <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/meme_2_itunes.html\" title=\"iTunes\">in the past<\/a>, but essentially, I carry around one 1Gb playlist, and occasionally toss one or two other specialized playlists on when I&#8217;m in a mood to, and that&#8217;s it. Right now, I&#8217;m currently using a whopping 2.12Gb of my 10Gb iPod for music, leaving around 7Gb free.<\/p>\n<p>Now, say my iPod dies (heaven forbid). The more I think about it, if I do end up in a position where I need to get a new iPod, the iPod mini is <em>perfect<\/em> for my usage habits. Sure, it&#8217;s &#8220;only&#8221; 4Gb &#8212; but when I&#8217;m more than content with using just over half that space right now, why should that bother me in the least? I <em>could<\/em> spend \\$50 more than the iPod mini, get the bottom rung iPod, and have 15Gb available&#8230;but chances are, I&#8217;d still only use around 2Gb of it for music, essentially wasting the other 13Gb. On the other hand, I could spend only \\$250 (a full \\$150 <em>less<\/em> than the 10Gb iPod I have now, incidentally), still have about twice the drive space than I&#8217;m likely to use, and have a smaller, lighter iPod that does everything that I use mine for now.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a damn good deal to me.<\/p>\n<p>So, contrary to my initial opinion, count me fully in the camp of the iPod mini supporters. If my current iPod ever dies &#8212; which hopefully won&#8217;t happen for quite a while yet &#8212; the iPod mini will do quite well for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, contrary to my initial opinion, count me fully in the camp of the iPod mini supporters. If my current iPod ever dies &mdash; which hopefully won&#8217;t happen for quite a while yet &mdash; the iPod mini will do quite well for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}