TIME's timeline of the Nano and Nanos for Microsoft

The pic is from here: http://www.psiberaudio.com/iPod_3.htm Grab one for me too if you have the chance...

Can someone provide more information about the stereo tube amps shown in the picture. Maybe even a URL for a web site. Thanks

Dude, It's "cojones", not "cajones", "cajones" means drawers!!!

"Maybe there is a genie in that bottle..." I'd rather have the genies that are in those KT88 bottles that power those mono-block amps in the picture. But honestly, I'm happy with my 7591As. Scoble Likes the nano,eh? I wonder if all the good publicity that Apple's been getting, along with the cricket chirping Microsoft gets when it turns out "big news," is making Scobie scared that he may not have a job soon, and he's now sucking up to new, potential employers. I don't see why the nano wouldn't be durable, since it has no moving parts on the inside. Seems to me that the only way you could mortally wound a nano is to shoot it, or crack one of its circuit boards.

in response to #3: you beat me to the punch. any piece of technology that survives BEING RUN OVER BY A CAR shouldn't give you too much to worry about.

The way I feel about Microsoft is that they just don't get it. They may have focus groups and all that 'fake consumer caring' malarkey, but when it comes down to it, their products don't get me excited. The only Microsoft product I now own is an Intellimouse with the horizontal scroll, which does the job but is hardly exciting. A couple years ago I had a PC at home with Windows 2000 on it and it was good (ie. it crashed less than 98), but when I got OS X for my PowerMac G4 at work I was and still am astonished at what I could expect from an operating system. I still have my PC but it is hiding in shame in the cupboard while I work happily on a shiny PowerMac G5. I can't imagine Microsoft even trying to build or commission a DAP or even widening their hardware buisiness division unless their $10 billion a quarter starts to drop. It's a strange one really because a company of that size *should* have the upper hand for hiring (or not losing) talented designers & developers. Cheers; Poncho

Anyone concerned about the durability or reliability of the Nano should read this review: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/nano.ars The short version is that they ran it over with a Jetta and it still played music and had a functional scroll wheel (the display was cracked though).

"Now there's another skin-deep, glossy pseudo-review about the Nano." That's pretty ironic coming from this site, which has posted about 346 pointless or redundant nano articles in the last week.

That's great... i think micrisoft should take a *FEW* lessons from the design of apple products... they might come out with more successfulr products that they don't have monopolies on.