Your children will be closer to their friends real and imagined. They’ll be linked in, twitter-fied, facebooked, and MySpaced out when they get this ultimate must have! This device must have a name worthy of its users, we’ve elected to call to it – iDupe.

The first model will be under powered and with limited ports, ram, disc space and so on, but man oh man will the second round of next generation buyers take Apple to heights that only NASA will be able to explain.

Oh, and we’re having a contest here at Apple, send us your best kidney and or liver and you’ll get a complementary copy of iWorks 2010. It’s really neat and will make you productive and connected and, oh, productive.

Enrico strikes not once, but twice…muahahahahahaha…..

About 3-4 Christmases ago, Johnny and I bought each other PMPs.Its probably over kill for you, but it was a great buy for us. We didn’t have any other mp3 players. We are actually pretty slow when it comes to buying new tech. Anyway, we love them (Cowon A2 30 GB Portable Multimedia Player) They take so many formats and acts like a regular old external hard drive. We use them like one, too. When we visit folks in stick and bricks, we can connect it straight to the A/V RCA jacks on their TV and show them movies, pictures, etc. When only one of want to watch a movie, we use them instead of a laptop. It has some features we never use like an am/fm tuner, dictation (audio recording), line in audio/video playback and recording. The internal battery is rechargeable as well.

The newer ones have solid state drives(flash) and weigh 1/3 as much. They are also touch screen and a lot smaller.

We use at least one of ours every single day. And, years later they still hold a great charge. We haven’t had any problems with them. Crap I keep going on. I should just write a blog post instead of spamming your forum. I didn’t mean to go on and on. I just been so damn happy with it.

Best of luck to you on what ever you decide to do.

Driving across Texas is the suck. Northeast Texas is nice though.

PS. If my link offends, please feel free to remove it or change it to your own . I know its kind of treading the line on blog etiquette….

Yes, you want your iPod and I want you to want your iPod, why? Because small fingers in Asia are dutifully working to ensure your listening pleasure is never more than $300 away. I also love what it does for our anemic economy in addition to theirs in Taiwan, many blessings Rene for your self-less contribution to the well-being of others. But this missive is less about Keynesian economics than about access.

Now that the Web has liberated us all from the tyranny of, of, of, hmmm, I’m not sure what it liberated us from but it has given us unprecedented access as we are now morphing into an access rich population. Take the marketing tagline from Apple for example, “the iPod can hold over 10,000 songs!” That might not seem like a lot of songs anymore but when I was growing up in the ’70s owning more than 30 albums meant you really loved music and or knew enough about it to buy up to 30 albums. Sure, some folks had 100s of jazz and blues and classical and rock recordings, but these were the deep lovers of music. Are we still deep lovers of music? I guess we must be cause there’s so much of it out there.

It all comes down to content and access to that content doesn’t it? 10,000 songs on a single iPod, let’s see, at 3 minutes a song that would be 500 hours of music, that’s only 20.83 days of non-stop music, I want more and Steve Jobs knows this. I know he knows this because he tells me I want more and who am I to come between Steve Jobs and what I want?

Thanks to the forward thinking and influential tub banging of Steve Jobs I will no longer need to waste my time learning how to play the piano or cello or bassoon. And books? Get real, I’ve got 10,000 songs and countless audio books anticipating my download. With music as cheap and as accessible as it is today, it’s potency and meaning is better defined by it’s numeric accessibility than by anything else.

Enjoy your new iPod, I’m counting on it.

Enrico strikes again!