When the Zune Originals website opened to go along with the introduction of the second generation Zunes a couple of weeks back we were only allowed to purchase the flash based 4 and 8 gigabyte varieties. Now that’s changed!

Today Zune Originals has announced they will also be offering the big daddy of Zune line, the 80GB hard drive based Zunes too.

So now you have the option of putting some really cool graphic and personalized text onto your Zune, to go along with the fact they’re already cooler than the iPod, this makes them that much better.

Online retails seem to agree, the Zune was a massive hit during the most relevant and lucrative time of the year. Just when some (iPod fanboys anyone?) seem to have pigeonholed the Zune as an also ran in the hunt for the Holiday shopper the second gen software, not only the new Zunes themselves have emerged as a true contender. Make no mistake about it!

If you read between the lines of most of the naysayers comments regarding what they appear to believe is a rush based solely on the limited availability of the new Zune 80, you'll see that they truely are afraid; very afraid! These are the same bloggers who would be lauding the same type of active move if the Mac had ever made one to begin with.

We'll see what they're writing two or three years down the road when these things they laughed about start to make their move to the top. We may be a long way back but there's still a mile to go and we're gnawing at the bit just waiting for our rider to toss us the reigns for the long stretch drive. I can hear it now "moving like a tremendous machine", see ya at the finish line Jobs.