) I understand what you are saying, but I find it a lot easier to justify an iPod purchase over the mini purchase. Why purchase a few gigs for $250 when you can get many times more for $299? (My thinking was worse... why buy 15 g for $299 when I can get 40 for $499?)
2) The first time my daughter held my 40 gig 3g she murmured "It feels so _soft_." Nuff said.
The iPod mini: Visceral, Behavioral, Reflective