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.