Apple Introduces $499 Mac, $99 iPod

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A lot of times people upgrade their computers when their current technology is outdated. Most times, the only part of a computer that needs to be replaced is the hard drive.

I see the move to have just a hard drive available as a smart move. This helps the environment by not having keyboards,monitors and mouses (mice) sitting around in landfills when they still had many years of life left in them.

And, if you read the article, the new iPod is being launched in an attempt to nab a share of the flash market:

Originally Posted by CNN Article

The new iPod falls into a category of music players that use "flash memory," like that found in digital cameras and some portable disk drives, rather than hard drives like the other iPod models.


"We'd like to go after the remaining mainstream flash market," Jobs said, noting that the flash memory-based digital player market is currently highly fragmented. "The products are all pretty much the same."


He also claimed the iPod holds a 65 percent share of the entire market for portable digital music players, up from only 31 percent a year earlier.

The article also discusses automobile manufactures wanting to have iPod capable systems in their cars. My boss has this option for her BMW. It sure beats an FM receiver for an iPod.

I think this is a good move by Apple.