Don't fool yourself the new iPod mini is dope, and priced right, I cannot believe that there are so many analysts out there saying that it is over priced at $249 for 4GB, when on the same day Rio introduced the same thing (save usability and design) for exactly the same price. Gruber & 37s are right, the small size and usability trump everything else on the market. When the 1st iPod came out it was 5GB's and $399, yes $399, (people including me thought that was ridiculous, but look at it today, people buy cool shit, it gets better, smaller, cheaper and it rules the friggin' market. Comparisons to the PowerMac Cube are weak at best, I feel like the whole problem with that was upgradeability in relation to price, we are talking above the $1000 price point, not $250, plus it needed to be an ultimately functional device, a computer, the iPod in the end just needs to be cool. Just wait, you will be loading the latest song that the jack ass down the block made the day before in GarageBand and that you downloaded of iTunes for 99c by next year, and you can write an article on how well it all works.