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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
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  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