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iPods: Less Video, Less Money
Electronics | Nov 8, 05
You can say one thing for the new iPods with Video: they've precipitated a huge drop in the price of non-video iPods. Many vendors still have significant inventory of discontinued models, and are now slashing the prices of iPods that only a couple of months ago seemed to be the “must-have” items of the year.
Consider the Apple iPod 60 GB with Color Display. As shown by the graph below, at the beginning of the year this item went for at least $550, while today it may be purchased for less than $330.
Time Period: 12/20/2004 through 10/31/2005
Each tick mark represents one week
Red = High Price, Blue = Average Price, Green = Low Price
That's also more than $50 less than the lowest price on a 60 GB iPod with Video (notice that even the video iPods were released far cheaper than comparable-memory non-video iPods were at the end of last year). Now this is only a good deal if you're not into paying for otherwise free network television so you can watch it on a one-inch screen. But if what you're really looking for in an iPod are features like music, picture display functionality and the kind of memory you can't get with a Nano, you might consider picking up one of these "obsolete" models before supplies run out.
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