HP Officially Announces 40g MP3 Stereo Component

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday November 1, 2001 @04:13AM from the stuff-to-lust-after dept.

jspectre writes "HP announced their new de100c "digital entertainment center." Containing a 40g drive and a built in CDRW drive it will store "up to 750 CDs of music" or 9000 tracks. You can make your own playlists and burn them out to CDR/CDRW's. All of this for $999.99. No mention of any digital management controls on the device." I totally need a review model! I saw this thing at the last LinuxWorld and it looked good, but only really playing with it for a few weeks will let me know if it's better then the audiotron that I've been using in my home system.

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40 Gigabytes, not 40 grams... by Ecyrd · 2001-11-01 04:24 · Score: 5, Funny

For a moment I thought this was interesting: A 40 gram MP3 player. But then I realized someone had gotten their units mixed up again.

Seems to happen a lot in the US. *evil grin*

(G = Giga = 10^12, g = gram = 1/1000 of kilogram.)
Re:why? by dillon_rinker · 2001-11-01 06:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Oddly enough, this is not being marketed at people who can build a superior solution, in the same way that the Ford Festiva was not marketed at automotive engineers who owned a machine shop that they used to design and build their own engines...