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Review: I had always promised myself that when the iPod became affordable i would buy one. Apple have started to cater for the lower end of the market but the iPod shuffle just doesn't cut it in my opinion (1GB for £99, hellloooooo 2002!). So anyways i saw this at £115 in the local John Lewis department store and so bought one. I wasn't expecting much. Knowing the creative processes and flops apple has gone through i was expecting this to be difficult and purely a style accessory. After 20-25 minutes my ipod was set-up and that was that, no messing, no overnight charging, simply charge for 2 hours and upload your itunes songs on automatically, needless to say i was impressed. The other thing i had been skeptical about was the sound. Is everyone lese hearing what i'm hearing?!? its fantastic, even with the apple earphones and the fact that i encode at 96KBS MP3 its not far off hi-fi quality, the images just dont do this baby justice. The battery life is fine, 6-7 hours easily and the fact you get a mains charger helps even more. Now apple have launced the 6GB edition heres what you will get for your money: A 6GB iPod mini (Cool!)
The usual periphals (Coolish!)
NO MAINS CAHRGER (Not so cool) Yes, apple are not giving out the charhger with the new ones so unless your constantly near a PC you're in for trouble, this applies to the shuffles and the new 20gb and 40gb generations expected out soon. Do yourselves a favour, try and track down the old 4GB mini and give yourself piece of mind, you mite lose a few hundered songs but wouldnt you rather be able to actually listen on holiday, rather than having to wait until you come back to charge it, i know i would. | 
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