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Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Gadget fate

I've been idly contemplating getting a new iPod for a while now, but my trusty 3G 20GB model did everything I need, really. I couldn't justify upgrading.

Well, I could justify it in my own head, but I wasn't able to make cohesive arguments to others.

About 2 hours ago my iPod went kaput. Dead. It's making banging noises and no amount of reformatting is working.

About 5 minutes ago I learned that Apple have announced brand new iPods.

God they look sexy...

...Jane's never going to believe this when she gets home. :-/

Pandora Caitiff  I must have a chromosome missing or something. I have no intent or desire to own an i-anything. Especially not an ipod or iphone.

I'll let you early adopters work out the bugs before I even consider an MP3 player. 
Ian Betteridge  Soooo tempted to get an iPhone touch... 16Gb of course... 
Jane  You are right Jane doesn't believe it. ;-) 
Dan  i would eat iBread if they sold it.

I must admit i was rather irritated with myself that I'd bought one a couple of weeks ago and there is a new version coming out. 
beki  Now if they came with Noise Cancelling headphones (as standard!!) I'd be there. 
Melania  I'm an italian sister, and I wish to say just two words: "beautiful blog". Sorry for my english.
Kiss
Melania 
Natalie  Yes. I admit. I'm a total gadget whore. And now I'm really pissed that my G5 iPod is no longer top of the line. But, unlike your G3 it's nowhere near clunking and dying. I'll have to wait. As much as I'd rather not.....

The shiny is addictive.

And since when does owning an mp3 player these days make you an early adopter? Maybe with this specific model that'd be true.... 
Pandora Caitiff  @Natalie - Less than ten years old is "new" to me. Where are Minidiscs now eh?

-Pandora Ludd 
beki  @ Pandora

I've got one in my bedroom, next to the gramophone and the betamax ;0) 
Mrs Y  I think you did it by the power of thought. You're not going to sneak one on the gift list are you? 
helen g  I liked the comment someone (forget who) made about the iPhone: they said they'd wait for the iPhone Shuffle - it'll randomly dial people in your address book but won't tell you who it's called...
Well it made me giggle...
And last month I bought my 4th iPod in as many years... Either I have the knack of killing them to death with monotonous regularity or there's a whole lotta planned obsolescence going on... Ooh! Hark at Ms Cynical over there! 
thribble  I just bought a nano. An "old" one. Because I saw the internet mockups of the new one and didn't like it. Having seen the actual new one, I still don't like it. As one of our friends said, would you go for tall and thin, or short and fat? (Actually, I'm the worst bit of both of those combinations, but I love my iPod!)

They lie about the amount of songs you can get on it, though. 
Charlee  I have a 4Gb old version Nano, and I only just got it really, but I like it, so no need to upgrade yet. I was totally against iStuff until Last kinda made me do it, and now I really can't look back, I don't know how I'd live without Linus.

@Pandora, I have some still wrapped minidiscs if you want them ;) 

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