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."

Comments

Re:Not Just Your MP3 Player

[znu]

Can you boot from it? Newer Macs can boot off of an iPod, which means you can install OS X on it, sit down at any Mac made in the last couple of years, hook it up, reboot, and have your setup up and running in around a minute.

I guess it doesn't matter with the Treo; it would probably be too painfully slow to run a system off of a USB drive anyway.

Re:nothing special here

[Anonymous Coward]

BTW, Music Match sucks. The only good thing about Music Match is that it is fairly easy to use, which is why I used to use it. Here are some of my complaints about Music Match:

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  It is buggy as hell. The super high quality setting (in advanced recording options) actually creates terrible quality mp3s. See Analysis link of http://www.r3mix.net for more info. I encoded several CDs before I realized this. Boy was I pissed. I then switched to EAC and Lame (which produces better quality mp3s anyway). The people at Music Match apparently care more about adding lots of skins/gizmos/useless features, rather than making software that actually works.
  
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  It will nag and nag you until you make it the default media player for all the file types it supports. Very annoying.
  
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  The unregistered version is crippled anyway (rips and encodes slow, must register to speed up). Also displays annoying pop-up windows when exiting.
  

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[freeweed]

AMD released a new chip today that runs 5% faster than their old chips. It sells for 2x the price of the next fastest chip.

I dunno, something that has twice the storage for half the price (well almost) ... works out to be 4x the deal by my math (if these are the stats you care about, like I do). Compared to the much-touted ipod, I'd say this is one hell of an accomplishment.

Let's see regular 4x performance increased in CPU power for the same cost, and then I may agree with you. Until then, your point makes little sense.