callanish123

You could bring these up to date per say by taking out the 4 or 8gb hard drive and install a compact flash drive card on it, as I did, giving it 128gb’s of space. Also, the 400mah battery was way too small, so I’ve also upgraded that with a 1900mah battery to improve listening time. The final upgrade was installing rockbox on it to further improve sound quality by giving you vastly more feature settings and control over your music, plus this allows you to install and uninstall music from your file manager. The Mini also had an excellent Wolfson DAC chip on it, so considering how little all of these upgrades cost, it was worth the effort as the click wheel remains popular to this day with someone even attempting to do a software version of it for the iphones......until Apple pulled the plug on the developer. With its size, build quality, its retro look and now storage space and battery upgrades, along with the improved sound from Rockbox, I find the Apple Mini still holds its own in today’s world if you have your own music collection. I still get comments on it wondering why I’m using a 2004 Mini in 2020 only to explain that its been heavily modified.