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boxy, white plastic stainless steel gadget about the size of a deck of cards with a small, black-and-white screen and a FireWire port on top
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touch sensitive scroll wheels and a wired remote
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stunning enclosure that is lighter and thinner than two CDs.
The solid-state, no-moving-part controls were sleek, but Apple eventually discontinued them in favor of a "click" wheel that provided more feedback -
The iPod mini came in five colors silver, gold, pink, blue, or green anodized aluminum ,click wheel
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no screen, smaller and lighter than a pack of gum and costs less than $100
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Thinner, thinner than a standard #2 pencil
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outfitted with a special wireless receiver