New pods have landed!

In an effort to build an even more unstoppable digital music player line-up Apple revised their iPods today. They now sell as follows;

Shuffle 512MB $99
Shuffle 1GB $149
Mini 4GB $199
Mini 6GB $249
iPod 20GB $299
iPod Photo 30GB $349
iPod Photo 60GB $449

Most notable is how the ‘old’ 40 gig model has been dropped in favor of a 30 gig iPod Photo. The rumor sites were reporting that the mini would get a new color screen which turned out to be false, but it seems like an inevitable progression of the line-up I think. Apple has also chosen to omit the Firewire cable from the pack-in accessories leaving only the USB 2.0 one. Not something I would be too fond of as a Mac user, but understandable from a marketing standpoint. And for those bargain shoppers out there, you can get the ‘old’ 40 and 60 gig iPod Photos for $379 and $479 respectively in the Apple Store Sale section. That’s quite a drop from their original $499 and $599 prices. Some have speculated that this might be due to slow sales of the Photo models, but who cares? They’re cheaper, get some!