[Swordmaker]

Re: didn’t pay retail.

No I didn’t forget you think “retail is for suckers.” But you can’t make comparisons on one time special deals that are only found by you or on refurbs.

As to the lack of a screen on the Shuffles I guess the 30,000,000 people who have purchased them really don’t want a screen or care about selecting each song on an itsy-bitsy screen... Perhaps because they already made their play list in the order they like... Or perhaps it’s because the can’t select a song while jogging anyway.

[Blue Highway]

My memory is sketchy as to where I bought the Companion but I'm almost sure it's either Buy.com or Amazon.com. It wasn't a closeout or one time deal it was just on sale for a great price. You'd be able to find similar deals on Apple product, but oh I forgot you can only buy Apple products in THEIR store. I guess thats the way Steve Jobs prefers it with him being a control freak.

I like how you defend the people (read sheep) buying mp3 players without a screen. What good is a playlist when the 1Gb of mp3s would take some hours to cycle through, and Im not so sure it wouldn't repeat some of the same tracks more than once before it played through every song. Dumb idea, and I stick by it. only a Mac groupie would think this was a good idea.