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Terapin Mine Review

Posted by timothy on from the does-the-mine-get-the-shaft dept.

Ian Bell writes: "Designtechnica has just posted a review of the Terapin Mine. This handheld device has a 10gb hard drive, ethernet port, PCMCIA port, USB 2.0 and a front display. On top of all this it has a Linux OS installed complete with scandisk and defrag. You can hook this unit up to your television to view pictures as well. I know that the stats on this unit sound great, but you would be surprised by just how usable it is. Click Here for the full review." Whether it's 10 or 20 gigs (the review mentions both figures) doesn't really affect the reviewer's conclusion.

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  1. Good platform for opensource project by jukal · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As the review states:
    "its inconsistent performance coupled with its hulkish dimensions make it seem quite undesirable to those of us who can only afford to invest in a technology once."

    They have the things needed stuffed in there, but did not have the budget to get it work, maybe it could work as opensource?

  2. It must inhale the battery by peterdaly · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One +2 posting, and the site is already slashdotted...wow.

    Needless to say, I have not read the review, but the battery life on this sucker must be horrible! Either that, or you wear around a battery on your belt.

    The features mentioned in the slashdot summary sound great, but I don't believe current battery technology can power such a package for any reasonable amount of time. I may be wrong, as I said, I havn't read the review, but I bet battery is what will make this unit suck.

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  3. The hybrid device everyone needs... by httpamphibio.us · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There seems to be scores of companies that are coming to the portable mp3 device way too late in the game. Is there enough market share to handle dozens and dozens of devices that do the exact same thing? Doesn't seem to be. My real question is, why hasn't anyone released a device similar to the ipod (in physical size, speed, and hard drive space) with a decent sized color screen that includes pda and cell phone capabilities? yeah, it would probably cost a pretty penny, but i think these things would sell like crazy and *nobody* has done it yet.

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  4. Old news and an old problem... by jaaron · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This really isn't news. The product has been on the market for a really long time. I remember reading about it last year. ThinkGeek.com has had it for sale for months. Why do we always post such old news?

    Well, enough trolling, I do have a legitimate question that perhaps a few here have resolved. I've looked into this and other devices as an easy way to carry around a lot of my work, since I tend to bounce from using a computer at home, at work, and on campus. I have control over the computers at work and home, but not on campus. From what I understand, you would need to load certain drivers or other software to get this device to work with Windows, which is what they have on campus (please correct me if I'm wrong). So, since I can't load the drivers, I wouldn't be able to access any of my stuff stored on the drive when I on campus, right? Is there a solution to this? How do some of you carry large amounts of data around (other than zip disks or burned CD-ROMS)?

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