“This holiday season, the mini is huge. The Apple iPod mini, at $249, is my choice as 2004’s hottest high-tech gadget. All of the iPods are awesome. But this little package, weighing in at 3.6 ounces, a half-inch thick and the size of a business card, is so slick and so sleek that all I can say is: Sweet,” Mike Wendland writes for The Detroit Free Press.
“It holds 1,000 songs, works with Macs and Windows and the anodized aluminum case comes in five trendy colors. And it delivers a sound quality so big and so pristine that it’s hard to believe it’s coming from something so tiny. It’s cutting-edge, high-tech chicness,” Wendland writes. “Apple now has plenty of competition from aggressive companies like Dell, Creative Labs and Rio Audio, whose knockoff pods can hold many more songs at comparable prices. But none of the rival players can match the mini’s size and the aura of the iPod, not to mention the compatibility with the iTunes Music Store, Apple’s standard-setting download site.”
“The mini can sometimes be very difficult to find because of all the demand. Be patient. Apple’s making them as fast as they can,” Wendland explains. “It’s worth the wait. The mini rocks.”
Full article here.
Be the first in line to get your mini. If you do your shopping early you might even have time to do a first few posts at MacDaily News.
Warning: MacDailyNews is now in the habit of censoring posts that they don’t agree with. They have no posting policy posted on their site, but if they don’t like your post then they censor. Mine contained disparaging remarks about our current president. Big Brother is alive and well at MDN. Sucks!
This is not a political forum. Go MDN! You have a right to speak elsewhere about your politics.
Fakie Stover,
Since there is no posting policy, I think you have answered your own argument.
The only rule is there are no rules. So you can do what you like, and so can can MDN.
Touche.
And next you will disparage the iPod for not enough space and find your post gone too. Or you’ll disagree with their viewpoint and be censored. They allow cursing in these forums, so why not any mention of their candidate. Had I said something about Ted Kennedy or Michael Moore, you are darn right it would stay.
Like I said,
The only rule is there are no rules. So you can do what you like, and so can can MDN.
If you feel so strongly, set up your own forum pages and allow anything. I’m sure you’ll do well.
“Fakie Stover” Why are you posting on, reading MDN if you disagree with the site so much. I�m sure you can find something better to do with your time.
Fakie,
The fact that you have nothing better to do than post the same message for each article makes me think that your deleted message probably contained absolutely nothing of interest anyway. If you’re so concerned about MDN being big brother, then start your own webpage and say whatever you wish.
yeah, MDN censors posts…
bushSucks…
lets see how long bigBrother takes.
I contributed $20 to this site, ’cause it’s so much fun. But I have to agree with Fakie Stover — the political censoring is deplorable.
Although the forums have been filled with far too much politix (especially over the past 2 years), I don’t see that now is the time to start censoring posts because they have disagreeable politix. JMHO.
You can say whatever you want… MDN, as owners of this Web site, DO NOT HAVE TO LET YOU SAY IT. If you want to say something, start your own Web site. You have a right to say what you want, NOT to be heard.
This high and mighty rhetoric about censorship is complete hogwash. The fact remains that a comment about Bush doesn’t make sense on a Web site reporting Mac news. They own this site and can post whatever they want.
You don’t have a “right” to post whatever you want on any Web site… get over it.
They’re not “censoring”… they’re editing their Web page as they see fit. Learn the difference morons.
It’s really quite simple. If your post has nothing to do with the subject and consists only as a screed that is meaningless to the subject at hand, your post may be deleted. The subject of your post (be it Bush, Jimmy Carter, or the Easter Bunny) has no bearing whatsoever on whether your post is removed. It’s rare, but posts can be removed when they have nothing of value to add to the relevant discussion.
If George Bush, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, or Vladimir Putin happens to be integral to an article, blast away. Otherwise, there are “political” discussion boards elsewhere on the Web that would probably love to hear from you.
Who determines the value of the posts? MacDailyNews staff has sole discretion.
The following is an example post to this article:
“First Post! George Bush is Hitler. I hope Apple sells 100 million iPod mini players.”
This post may be edited by MDN to read:
“I hope Apple sells 100 million iPod mini players.”
Or the post may be removed completely depending on how busy we are and/or our mood at the time. The post above, from “Fakie Stover” would be a candidate for deletion, but is left as an example to explain this reply.
This is a very “open” forum with no registration or censoring (we do replace a certain word with “fsck” when the whim strikes us; it’s a long-standing MDN tradition). 99.9% of people will have no problems. Enjoy.
Now I’m curious as to what Fakie said that got his post deleted. Post it again so we can judge for ourselves. MDN may not be able to delete it before we see it.
Ignore that, MDN beat me to it. So much for the revolution…
heh, my authentication word it “nuclear”.
I told you that the MDN advertorials where the beggining of the end for MDN. Now they are editing content. MDN RIP.
john wrote,
“I told you that the MDN advertorials where the beggining of the end for MDN. Now they are editing content. MDN RIP.”
john, you would have a point, but only if your post wasn’t still sitting here for all the world to see. Its very existence above proves you wrong.
There’s nothing like a good old MDN argument on a Friday afternoon!
My Magic Word was ‘George Bush Smells’. Honest
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />
I still laugh over the Democrat and Republican (fake) convention schedules that appeared in MDN posts. They were as clever and funny as anything I have seen on SNL, The Onion, etc. It would be a shame to have missed those due to censorship.
Besides, in a free society, censorship is DUMB.
It’s NOT censorship… it’s a Webmaster EDITING his own Web site.
Learn what the hell censorship is before bantering it around like an ignorant buffoon….
Sure it’s a free society… start your own Web site and put out the expense and you can let people say whatever they want to.
Absolutely pathetic…. people have NO CLUE what censorship reallly is…
Mac Zealots are such brainwashed tools. Apple is an autocracy with Jobs as its Mao. He can do no wrong! Mac Zealots blindly accept anything Jobs endorses as the ultimate and final word of how a computer experience should be.
No buttons on a mouse? Big Brother Jobs says we do not need buttons. Anti-ergonomic design at excessive prices? Big Brother Jobs says he knows what is best for consumers. 40% of a MAC’s cost on its design? Big Brother Jobs knows what is best for you.
Instead of supporting the free exchange of ideas on a Mac fan page, they CENSOR (yes, Billy, I know what censorship means, but apparently you don’t…) what can posted here. Sucks, sucks, sucks…
Who else does that? Try posting something anti-Bush or anti-Republican on Dailynewsmax.com or rightwingsnews.com…
You’ll see big brother in action, just like at MDN.
(For you Billy…)
Censorship, official prohibition or restriction of any type of expression believed to threaten the political, social, or moral order. It may be imposed by governmental authority, local or national, by a religious body, or occasionally by a powerful private group. It may be applied to the mails, speech, the press, the theater, dance, art, literature, photography, the cinema, radio, television, or computer networks. Censorship may be either preventive or punitive, according to whether it is exercised before or after the expression has been made public. In use since antiquity, the practice has been particularly thoroughgoing under autocratic and heavily centralized governments, from the Roman Empire to the totalitarian states of the 20th cent.