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Treó 10: Another Portable Mass Storage Device
mblase writes: ""The Treó 10 is a lightweight, pocket-sized, digital music jukebox with the capacity to store over 3,000 songs - that's 150 hours of music." It's got twice the hard-drive space of Apple's iPod, but also half the RAM, half the battery life, and uses a much slower USB connection instead of FireWire. However, it's PC-compatible using MusicMatch Jukebox right out of the box, and costs only $250 instead of $400 for the iPod. CNet's article compares the two further."
I ordered an iPod the day Apple announced it. So far since its arrival, I've taken it halfway across country patched into my car stereo, I've taken it hiking in the Jemez Mountains, I've tuned out all the banal MallMusik to get my Christmas shopping done without killing anyone, and I patch it into the ministereo in my bedroom so I can be lulled gently to sleep by whatever the randomizer kicks out.
Oh, and I've got all my important OS X data backed up onto it.
I'm completely sold on the iPod. This thing for me is to music what my TiVo is to TV: you'd have to kill me to get it outta my meaty paws.
Now, for the Treo. USB? 10GB? Are they high? Syncing a portable to (in my case) a slightly less portable shouldn't ever be something that takes an overnighter plus to accomplish. That alone would kill the Treo for me.
I'm guessing from the fact that special "music management" software is provided that there's some kind of DRM scheme involved. I like Apple's approach: every iPod comes in a plastic sleeve with "Don't steal music" on it. My machine. My ethical conundrum. They stayed out of it, as they should have.
Still, it'll be nice to get some feedback from folks who've actually used one -- I'm especially curious about the DRM speculation.
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This is yet another attempt by a greedy corporation to cash-in on pseudo-Geeks. The real Geeks, though, know that for $250 you can get a 100 GB of storage and have 10x the tunes. I can't believe Slashdot is running a story like this when I've been able to order a bigger hard drive than that for cheaper than that for years. I have all the portable music storage I need (all my They Might Be Giants and Ben Folds five albums, plus lots of leftover space), without getting price-gouged by greedy corporations.
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I especially liked the way you didn't ad any new info, because you know, I hadn't heard how the iPod was a revolutionary device and all that, and how it was so much radically better then other mp3 players because you could boot your Mac off of it a bazillion times already.
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The nomad 20 GB is $349, less the twice the price for more than TWICE the storage....The only thing is it takes 2 bloody hours to fill up my 6GB nomad via USB so this thing is gonna be a nightmare...Apple has it right with FireWire...
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
So is there any legal overlap between the Treo that is a handheld PDA/phone (which could potentially end up with an mp3 attachment) and the Treo that is a handheld mp3 player? The former has an accent over the 'e' whereas the latter's is on the 'o'.
No. As hard as it is to understand for people who only know English, accents really matter -- they aren't just there for show -- there are words in many languages that only differ by an accent.
Sure, so a company that's named Micrasoft is legally okay too, because the name is different from Microsoft, right? There is possible legal overlap between the two; if one attempts to be excessively similar to the other or someone decides to complain about it, there may be a suit; what the law will say depends on how much they can pay their lawyers and who decides to cut a deal.
Accents really matter in other languages; they don't in English. I'd assume a court in America or Australia or England would be concerned about the potential confusion to the English speaking buyer. If they are Romanian trademarks and a case comes before a Romanian court, the accents would be given more importance.