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Hello there,
first of all i wanna apologize about my lame english (it's my second language :P) :P My brother's BD is near and he wants a 2nd Gen iPod mini as a BD present :P My question is where can I get one at the best price and and with minimal damage (non-engraved one) and with all the basic addons (USB, ipod earphones and whatever) online? I'll appreciate your help :) |
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eBay and other online auction sites are your best option for finding a mini.
I'm curious, though -- why does he want a mini rather than a nano? |
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Yes, online auction sites would be your best bet. Depending on where you live, they might have something like Craigslist too.
Some times you can even find stuff like that on Amazon. Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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the iPod mini remastered, now with 16GB! The girlfriend was running out of space on her 4 gig mini so the other day I swapped it for an 8 gig compact flash card. It works a treat! |
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Of course, if you already have the mini, it's a great upgrade. It almost makes me wish I still had mine. |
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I just found my wife's Pink Mini. I'm not sure what I'll do with it, though it's personalized for her with a message from me. I'm sure I'll be one of the ones to put a CF card in it if not a new battery too.
Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. Last edited by turtle : 2007-05-22 at 10:17. |
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But you can't buy a nano with more than 8 gigs of storage (at the moment). I'd expect that in a year or so we'll be able to buy 32 gig or even higher capacity compact flash cards. Last edited by beardedmacuser : 2007-05-22 at 10:25. Reason: Posts merged |
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I likely would. What annoys me about her Mini is that it's loosing it's color though. It has been for the years we've had it. It's 2nd gen, but we aren't even sure why it's loosing it's color. It looks like fading as though it were left in the sun. We're keeping it though. I have quite the collection right now.
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And the black remastered iPod mini looks a lot better than the current iPod nano - if the nano had a white clickwheel and black centre button, I'd buy one like that. Helvetica is my bitch. System: 27" iMac i7, 2TB, 8GB RAM, Mac OS X Snow Leopard |
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First of all, we have WinXP (apple's stuff are pretty expensive in Israel :X ).
I asked him the same question and he told me he likes it more than the nano :P I don't care, I own a 30GB 5.5Gen iPod so i'm not going to use his :P |
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Does he know that the iPod nano is made out of the same curvy aluminum now?
I could understand prefering the iPod mini if the iPod nano was still plastic, but now that it's all aluminum (it even comes in the same colors!), I really can't understand why anyone would prefer the mini. But hey, if it's what he wants... and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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The solid-state flash hard drive in the Nano is much better for being dropped than the magnetic HDD in the Mini, is it not?
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Yes, because you can't crash heads on a flash card since they aren't there. The microdrive does have the ability to have the heads crash and thus die.
I'm pretty sure that flash drives don't use anywhere near the amount of power microdrives do. Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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I can see where someone would want a Mini over a Nano.
I loved my Mini, the only reason that I got a Nano was becuse I got it for Christmas. Right after I got the Nano, the dock connector became loose on the Mini and the warranty was expired, so now I have a 2nd Gen 4gb Mini just sitting around. I liked the size of the Mini better than the Nano. The Nano just feels a little small to me, like it could break easily. However, I love the Nano and use it every day, I just wish you could still use FireWire with it. |
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despite being a memory container with non-moving parts, nand gate and nor gate flash memory have their own problems in terms of reliability. I'd say over time they will last longer than the hdd version, but if you're dropping it repeatedly it is just as likely to malfunction.
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*Bump*
I received a free iPod mini from a customer that had a dead HD, I did the "upgrade" to a CF card today and it works perfectly (sans the clickwheel that was already trashed, luckily I have a remote so I can still use it). As I am broke atm I only put in a 1GB card in. 1GB SanDisk Ultra II. If anyone is interested in doing it themselves, PM me with questions and I shall answer what I can. jm. |
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Cool, I still have my wife's Pink Mini and think about upgrading it every now and then just for fun...
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stupid me trying to reply to a dead thread
sorry mods |
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I know that this thread was dead... and that I'm drifting off-topic. But I've been wanting to express my affection for the iPod Mini -- it is perfect, nearly! As others have said, the size, the weight and the curvy feel are just right; In fact, just holding one makes me happy. And I love that there is a little spinning, whirring, hard-drive soul in there. The Mini does everything that I would like it to, and yet it has the good taste to resist the superfluous and the flashy.
I have a silver Mini and two pink Minis; I'm hoping to pick up a blue one, too! Or maybe even a gold one. Beardedmacuser, thanks for the advice (and inspiration) on replacing HDDs and batteries... I have bookmarked this thread for that eventual day. Cheers! "We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are." Anais Nin |
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