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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."
This post doesn't really warrant being on the front page of slashdot really; there's already portable MP3 players with hard drives. It's no surprise that more would come out. Just because it looks slightly like the ipod doesn't mean it's any more special than another mp3 player. It's good that more of these are getting to market, but I see nothing revolutionary here, or news worthy for that matter.
Looks like it's got half the interface & looks to me as well. Kinda like buying a Yugo and comparing it to a Mercedes. Not to mention that and taking 10 hours to download your music rather than the 12 minutes on an iPod.
I just got my iPod on Thursday, and it's been a trip. Before I leave to work, I drag & drop the albums I think I want today (from my 80G archive), then I just drag around the iPod in the car, in my cubicle at work, walking around, etc.
If it wasn't for the fact that I can replace all my music in a matter of minutes, the iPod would have died a miserable premature death.
That and having it recharge batteries from the firewire port is pretty slick, though I haven't run out yet.
Moderators: How exactly is this offtopic?
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Someone posts a wholly useless news article to the front page of slashdot, and someone takes the piss out of it. It's anything BUT offtopic.
Dave
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Carrying both? Priceless...
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It seems that perhaps the moderator who posted my comment as "offtopic" has a little difficulty with the whole "reading" thing. Those examples that I gave were to illustrate the point, not to just spout stuff.
Let me explain my message. I gave some examples of reviews that weren't worth making, specifically picking things that don't have very many features. For example, a shoe, for the most part, is a shoe. There isn't a lot to say about it - its only features are comfort, durability and style. Also, there are LOTS of shoes.
So...my point was that when the only features are harddrive size, PC interface, and cost, what's the point of making a review? Its about the same as reviewing shoes, or hamburgers, or laptops brands (not actually the laptops themselves).
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!