I just wanted to add that if you have a significant cashback bonus from Discover card, you could exchange it for Sharper Image gift cards ($20 for $40). I just did that and ended up paying $30 for a mini, including shipping.

The iPod Shuffle was unveiled today. http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/ Looks like no price cuts.



The smallest will have 512 megabytes of storage and cost $99. A one-gigabyte version, which holds 240 songs, will sell for $149. The lowest cost iPod is the mini, which costs $249 for four gigabytes — enough to store about 1,000 songs

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...hi_te/macworld

They probably didn't want to do price cuts as it would piss off the Christmas 2004 customers.

I'm guessing drops will happen in the next 60 days, but I could be blowing hot air.

I'm just curious...how come I just saw a banner in this forum that claims you can get a free iPod with a "click of a mouse" yet threads for free iPods are forbidden. Isn’t this kind of the same thing? I've been a member of this website for over 2 years and I definitely agree with the idea that there shouldn't be threads on this subject but aren't banners somewhat redundant? I'm not trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill, but I thought I'd throw this question out there...

http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=406027

That was well worth the click and scroll effort