I’m buying a new laptop this week, or next, and I’m 100% sure I want to tag one of those bad boys onto that purcahse. What’s another $250 when you’re dropping $1500 anyway?

Readers: The iPod nano is also available in black. Which color do you choose? I choose white, because it looks like an iPod.

Old: family pictures in your wallet
New: family pictures on your iPod (every size but the Shuffle). Now small enough to be carried wherever you go.

Nate, you know me, I gotta be different plus I like a good argument — I’d have to go with the black, just because everyone else will go with a white one. The inscription on the back of my 40GB, “I Got a Fever and the only Rx is More Cowbell” is just somehow not enough different from everyone else to satisfy my taste for orneryness…

oh, don’t forget, it’s “nano”, not “Nano” … all lower case … c’mon, it’s part of the the great apple marketing/advertising for the sweet, tiny/large ipod/ishuffle …

total agreement that apple hit the mark with this little beauty for design and function. i’ll look to see if i can’t get someone in my family to send me one for christmas.

Actually Bennett, if you watch steve Job’s 900 hour speech announcing iTunes 5, the phone (blah), and the iPod nano, he does say that the iPod mini was the best selling iPod across the board.

So it’s like they’ve taken their good thing and made it better. They even balked a little bit with the loss of the colors (one of the draws to the iPod mini, just like the original iMac) by immediately—in the same presentation—announcing colored plastic carrying cases.

And for the Design record, Apple does White better than anyone else.

Ok - first the nano looks amazing. agreed. i prefer the white. Off, but still on topic, my ipod photo of couse can’t be found any longer because of the introduction of the color screen for every ipod thing…is this the kind of takeover they are planning for the mini vs nano? I was going to get my little sis a mini (through the free ipod mini educational promotion going on til 9.24 i think) and that would obviously mean my sister and i both would have seemingly ancient ipods. Its great that they are moving so fast with introducing new stuff..but c’mon…where a G5 laptop already!

For a laugh, read this post from Daring Fireball about Dell’s new mp3 player.

IPod Nano - the most frustrating and painful experience I remember for a long time. The software developers at Itunes and Ipod have forgotten we “public” buy these things. IPod unit itself - excellent. User Friendly rating of the software for downloads -100. Great product while the software interface is hopeless, thoughtless and frustrating. Overall the software makes this a “NO BUY”