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Apple's 5.5G iPods receive stealthy price cuts

engadget.com — "While everyone's busy trying to figure out which particular shade of brushed metal Apple's new iMacs are going to show up in, a few major online retailers have quietly trimmed 5.5G iPod prices."

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  • flamingmb, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22target has been selling the 80gb at a discount for at least 2 months now. Not news.
  • whatchokesbegin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19So, anybody else not really impressed with a measly $20 discount? Why is this news?
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+16Falsity: "everyone's busy trying to figure out which particular shade of brushed metal Apple's new iMacs"
    Truth: "Mac fans are busy trying to figure out which particular shade of brushed metal Apple's new iMacs."

    Brainwash much?
  • ibeetle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7ummm... when the price cuts have been in every Sunday sales circular for the past 2 months.... how is exactly is that stealthy?
  • doctorfungi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Great! A week after I bought one...
  • clyde2801, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Because Steve Jobs didn't call a press conference and announce it on a stage before thousands of people. Geez, get with the program!
  • fsck3r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+65.5G As in Generation not 5.5GB
  • GirthAgain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I think you have no strong sources and have only reposted what has been said on apple rumor sites.
  • DoTheFandango, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Just return it.
  • tidu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5True. it's a $200 rebate, so you'll have to pay $50 for a video ipod.
  • kevinmotel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5why must you turn my digg into a house of LIES?
  • Tommy3000, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6So...um...how much do they cost now.
  • tzonic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4You can get a Video iPod, you just have to pay a bit extra (but you still get it at a heavy discount).
  • MarrowMan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Some places will refund the difference of a product within a certain amount of time, if the place you bought it then lowered the price soon thereafter.
  • phoomp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2There have been new iPods released at the same time as Apple's Back to School deal. They weren't eligible for the deal.
  • mal1964, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2back to school sale (365)
    http://store.apple.com/1-800-780-5009/WebObjects/EducationIndividual?type=higherEd&promo=StudentUnion&cid=EDU-AOSA10000008186
  • bradkovach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Leo Laporte? Is that you?
  • 3vno, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1 I think apple does that on purpose . You know drm and all that.
  • DanielNielsen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1And i just buried you for being the ***** poster police.
  • akf2000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Sorry, I can see the error of my ways now.
  • MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Lighten up Sara
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2My ipod is becoming increasingly annoying, Its setup where it wants you to keep your music on your pc , can't connect it to other pcs or you will get " erase and sync with this library?" I have tried for 2 weeks to add a playlist to it from amarok, and itunes, it just wont create the playlist. I really don't see why its so complicated, i wish i could just drag and drop music to it like it was a flashdrive. Itunes makes everything difficult?
  • mal1964, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Last year and 3Q sales don't sell anything NOW!, that's what retailers want is NOW! sales
  • sakuraz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3It's a news in that it's official.

    Could mean next gen ipods, iphone nanos, you name it.
  • johnpaul191, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1honestly, this doesn't mean crap. i got my 60 GB iPod w/video with a similar $20 discount from Amazon and it was months before these 5.5G showed up. i bought mine in April/May and the revision did not show up till September. here's the 5G iPod life cycle: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/consumer_electronics/stats/ipod_5thgen.html

    it may be a sale to pick up their sales when people are buying iPhones, or getting new Macs and taking advantage of the free/discount iPod edu discounts. this $20 is nothing compared to the $150 off Apple gives you if you are buying a new machine soon anyway.

    now it seems even less likely that a new full-sized iPod would be released if it would screw with iPhone sales. i know they are different beasts in terms of capacity, but the iPhone has been considered the best iPod interface ever.
  • peter337, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Buried for being lame. These lower prices have been around a long time.
  • nolesfan247, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Get a job.
  • nolesfan247, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I've been seeing the price cuts in the flyers on Sundays for a few weeks now too...I was going to replace my old iPod mini soon but I decided to wait because of the iPod rumors.
  • digitul, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1wtf is this on the front page? oh yeah, apple is in the subject line.... buried as lame
  • djh816, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4They only give nano's in that. Not full iPod videos.
  • sdigroup, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1haha WTF $20HAHAHAHHA
  • reallydigginit, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3This makes it pretty clear new iPods are coming.
  • djh816, on 10/10/2007, -7/+5oh no, the grammar po-po
  • mal1964, on 10/10/2007, -7/+6They are just doing it out of the kindness of their hearts. or because poor sales = price drop.
  • bSimms, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2If it was a new model iPod and they continued the back to scool deal, that would be sweet seeing as I am about to buy a mbp.
  • MisterZero, on 10/10/2007, -8/+2Um, where is the 5.5gb iPod? I don't think it exists.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -17/+10If there's anyplace you need to go, it's back to school. You're barely literate:

    1. If it WERE a new model...

    2. ...continued the back-to-school deal

    3. MBP

    And then we have the similarly retarded respondent: It's Nanos; "'s" makes something possessive, not plural.
  • beerandcoffee, on 10/10/2007, -8/+0Strong sources tell us that the new brushed aluminum iMacs (hopefully with the hot sleek keyboard) and the new iPod Nano's (with new design and interface) as coming on August the 7th.

    But the biggest speculation will be whether we see a widescreen and touchscreen iPod, or just one with a new interface. We know that the maximum storage will now be 120Gb as Samsung started making these a few months back. We also know its well past the time for a normal update. So there will most definitely be one coming out by the end of this year. But again this i'd say is the biggest piece of speculation. With the iPhone just out we might not see our widescreen iPod till 2008.

    What do you think?
  • llsethj, on 10/10/2007, -10/+0Apple corporate discounts way lower too

    http://9to5mac.com/ipod-corporate-discounts-heavy-sale-43453234
  • akf2000, on 10/10/2007, -20/+3I've got a 6th Gen iPod in front of me, it's ok I suppose.

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