Apple says has 100,000 orders for iPod mini

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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. (NasdaqNM:AAPL - News) said on Tuesday it has received 100,000 orders for its iPod mini digital music player, which goes on sale on Friday at Apple's retail outlets, its online store and through resellers.

The maker of Macintosh computers also said that retailer Target Corp. (NYSE:TGT - News) this week will start selling $15 prepaid cards for Apple's online music store alongside top-selling CDs and set up featured display areas where consumers can play with iPods at its 1,200 stores in the United States.

The prepaid cards carry a code that users key in when they enter Apple's online music store, iTunes.

The slender, smaller iPod mini -- about the length and width of a business card, weighing 3.6 ounces and holding 1,000 songs -- is Apple's answer to cheaper but lower-capacity flash-memory-based digital music players.

http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040217/tech_apple_ipod_1.html

[FlashHarry]

1. Must... resist... can't... justify... new... toy!

I just got a new Mac and have about 1,000 songs on my iTunes--just about the amount that'll fit in a new iPod Mini. *drool*