mini-me iPod
The rumors were true. Apple released the iPod mini today. It weighs in at only 3.6 ounces with a capacity of 4GB. Apple probably chose a 4GB hard drive, in part, so they could claim that it holds 1,000 songs. Other than its smaller size, the new iPod mini seems to have all the features as its bigger brother. It starts at $249. Apple is probably hoping that the iPod mini will compete with the lower priced flash memory based music players on the market.
Apple also announced an update to its iLife package that includes a new audio application called GarageBand. I wonder how much of GarageBand’s technology came out of Apple’s acquisition of eMagic. Apparently, Jobs had John Mayer help him demonstrate GarageBand at MacWorld SF. I haven’t seen the video of the keynote yet, but that should be interesting to see. iMovie, iPhoto and iTunes have also been updated. A new G5 Xserve was also announced, as well as an increase in capacity to 3.5TB for the Xserve RAID.
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