The Micro vs the Mini
By Edvarcl Heng
22/11/2004
The iPod Mini has, in a sense, opened up the micro hard drive player market with a vividly successful run that had undoubtedly contributed to its dominance of the same market that it has helped created. And it is not as if the Mini has not had its fair share of competition from other manufacturers. Even though the list of challengers from other companies such as Creative and Aiwa which have tried and failed grows longer with every quarter, it is only inevitable that someone would come up with a viable alternative that can potentially knock the Mini off its Lilliputian throne.
In a far cry from its usual boxy designs, Creative's Zen Micro is the Singapore-based company's latest effort to break the stranglehold that Apple has on the hard drive player market. And with Creative actively trumpeting the Zen Micro as the only real bane for the iPod Mini, we decided to pit the two in a shootout to find out whether the Micro is indeed a true winner or just a wash-out.
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