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HP Officially Announces 40g MP3 Stereo Component

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Waste of money by turd191 · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is a bad decision on HP's part and even worse decision by anybody that would actually pay money for this. You can build or purchase a pc that has more functionality and also do all that this box is capable of for less money.

  2. The timing of this could not possibly be worse by Tony+Shepps · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...in several ways.

    One, in case the marketing folks at H/P haven't noticed, three days ago consumer confidence was just reported to be at it's lowest point in a decade. A very bad time to push a $999 device that doesn't really add all that much value. If I had a thousand dollars, which I don't, there are about thirty devices in line before this one. Hell, a "beater" used car for the winter should be in line before this thing.

    Two, with his dep't tag and repeated pushing of exactly this sort of consumer toy, it suggests that Taco is lusting after these $999 devices, which is what he shouldn't be admitting during a time when he is trying to leverage the tech news weblog model into more intrusive revenue generation. It makes me want to turn off the ads in my /. preferences, and not join any sort of membership model.

    I have given a lot to sites through the Amazon and Paypal tip jars. I support sites that really need the money and are using it for bandwidth and hardware, not expensive toys. Back in the day, I even sent Taco a graduation gift, which represented the /. tip jar of its time.

    At this point, other webmasters are quitting the business or turning their sites into non-profit ventures that don't support even their own salary. I don't deny anyone the right to make money, but I do have to decide what to do with my own limited resources.