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Amazon.com .caption { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } ul.indent { list-style: inside disc; text-indent: 20px; } The 1 GB iPod shuffle lets you wear up to 240 songs on your sleeve. Or your lapel. Or your belt. And now it’s available in your choice of remixed colors. Clip on iPod shuffle and wear it as a badge of musical devotion. Controls iPod shuffle pays respect to its bigger siblings with a circular (more…)

Amazon.com –Posted September 9, 2008
The iPod touch has always been an amazing iPod. And with its groundbreaking technologies–including a Multi-Touch screen, the accelerometer, and 3D graphics–and access to hundreds of games, iPod touch puts an amazing gaming experience in the palm of your hand. It comes in 8 GB, 16 GB, and 32 GB models with new volume controls and a built-in speaker. Play hours of music. Create a Genius Playlist of songs that go great together. Watch a movie. Su (more…)

Amazon.com –Posted September 9, 2008
The iPod touch has always been an amazing iPod. And with its groundbreaking technologies–including a Multi-Touch screen, the accelerometer, and 3D graphics–and access to hundreds of games, iPod touch puts an amazing gaming experience in the palm of your hand. It comes in 8 GB, 16 GB, and 32 GB models with new volume controls and a built-in speaker. Play hours of music. Create a Genius Playlist of songs that go great together. Watch a movie. Su (more…)

Amazon.com –Posted September 9, 2008
Now you can take it with you. All of it. Available in a 120 GB model that holds up to 30,000 songs, 150 hours of video, 25,000 photos, or any combination, the new iPod classic fills your pocket with sight and sound. Available in quintessential silver or striking new black, iPod classic catches your eye with its sleek, all-metal enclosure composed of anodized aluminum and polished stainless steel. The new Genius Playlist feature creates an on-the (more…)

Amazon.com –Posted September 9, 2008
With eight amazing colors, a new curved design, and great new features, iPod nano rocks like never before. The Genius Playlist feature finds the songs in your music library that go great together and makes a playlist for you. With its built-in accelerometer, iPod nano is made to move. Give it a shake, and it shuffles to a different song in your library. Turn it on its side to flip through your album art in Cover Flow. And tilt, move, and play ac (more…)

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The iPod Dock Connector to USB Cable offers high speed data transfer for quickly loading an entire music library on iPod or iPod mini and convenient charging. The cable can also be connected to the iPod USB power adapter for charging on-the-go. Compatible with iPod models with dock connector. Supports either USB 1.1 or 2.0. iPod CompatibilityiPod nano 1G, iPod nano 2G, iPod mini, iPod 3G, iPod 4G (Clickwheel), iPod Color, iPod 5G/5.5G Video

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Apple Computer is denying rumors that it is working on a machine to tackle the low cost laptop, or “netbook”, market.  Steve Jobs himself has tried to squash rumors of such a device in the works.  Well, in the same way that the government denying the exisitence of ET craft just spawns further rumors of such, denials by Steve Jobs does the same.  The difference here is that with Apple and Jobs, there are sources like the China Times that say not only does Apple have something in the works, but it is going to be a touch screen machine more like a giant iPod Touch, and sell in the neighborhood of US$800., which is about $300.00 north of some current netbook pricing.  This makes sense.  Leave it to Apple to redefine what is cool in the low cost computer space.  Netbooks are cool, but iPods and even giant iPod touch screens are COOLER.    This will also be a tablet form factor, not a clamshell design like traditional laptops, notebooks, or netbooks.  The screen is also rumored to be a bit smaller than the 10.1″ netbook standard, closer to 9.7″, as per the China Times.  The device is slated for a possible October 2009 release.

I might just want one of these suckers.  Why can’t HP, Dell, or IBM have done this?  That is because Apple has something the others don’t have enough of, creativity.

Now, I would be lining up to poo poo this thing if all it was was a spiffier Apple netbook, but if this indeed comes to fruition, then this is another Steve Jobs coup.  Okay, potential coup.  Even Steve Jobs is capable of producing a stinker from time to time, but this thing has potential.  Some might say that it’s too big to be an iPod so then it’s not cool.  I don’t know about that.  It will tackle the market that really wants an Apple desktop type machine, running that uber cool operating environment, but it also remains uber portable as well, and can probably store many more tunes than any iPod ever made.  The screen is also big enough to make watchig movies that much more enjoyable.  It’s not an iPod, but a hybrid.  I like the idea, but I always was a gadget freak.

I really hope that this device is in the works and will release just before Christmas.  Maybe Apple can make the expected depressing holiday retail shopping season exciting once again.

I didn’t get the news from Gizmodo, but they are reporting the same thing.

Amazon.com –Posted September 9, 2008
Now you can take it with you. All of it. Available in a 120 GB model that holds up to 30,000 songs, 150 hours of video, 25,000 photos, or any combination, the new iPod classic fills your pocket with sight and sound. Available in quintessential silver or striking new black, iPod classic catches your eye with its sleek, all-metal enclosure composed of anodized aluminum and polished stainless steel. The new Genius Playlist feature creates an on-the (more…)