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Toshiba's iPod Competitor

Posted by timothy on from the mmmm-competition dept.

a lonely moose writes: "It looks like Toshiba basically copied Apple's iPod. They got cheap on screen size and unit weight, and without iTunes, it'll be darn hard to handle as elegantly as the iPod. Anyway, check out MacCentral's article and the smoking forum at the bottom."

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  1. Whatever. by st0rmshad0w · · Score: 1, Funny

    As long as it doesn't begin with "i" or "e".

  2. Re:Competition is good by SaturnTim · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Faster"?

    How much faster do you want it to play the music, anyway?

    :)

    --T

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  3. Linux anyone? by CanadaDave · · Score: 4, Funny

    Has anyone gotten Linux running on this yet? I'd really like to install Debian and be able to run X.

  4. No! Apple rules!! by Mulletproof · · Score: 1, Funny

    You heathen! Slimeball! Unwashed blasphemer!! how dare you suggest Apple products are somehow lower than it's true place above and beyond all other hardware!? I'm not a fan boy... But a priest! Yes! The iPod is a creation unto itseld with NO puny ancestrial... Um... Ah...

    Well, it was fun while I could keep a strait face.

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  5. Re:I've never understood the market for these play by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't let it bother you - there are people out there who could care less how much things cost. These people are very different from you and I. They would rather lick the snot off a man's hairy ass than perform such a vulgar act as eating Kraft Macaroni and Cheese from a box. If they ever eat mac-n-cheese, you better bet they can tell you which provinces in Italy and France the pasta and cheese hailed from.

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  6. 5GB HDD as floppy replacement? by Huge+Pi+Removal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well... To change the topic slightly, look at it this way:

    The Apple iPod can be split between music and data. So you could, in theory, put your absolute favourite music on it, and leave the rest of the space for a system folder (and some utilities).

    Apples can boot from Firewire drives.

    The new Apple XServe has, on the front, a FireWire port.

    So any responsible sysadmin that has to look after an XServe _needs_ an iPod as an *ahem* emergency recovery disk.

    Given that the Unix way is to have a "boot floppy" and a "fixit floppy", I'll go with Apple on this one :) Sounds like a "floppy replacement" to me!

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    - Oliver

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  7. Re:I've never understood the market for these play by mumkin · · Score: 2, Funny
    > They would rather lick the snot off a man's hairy ass than perform such a vulgar act as eating Kraft Macaroni and Cheese from a box.

    I think I might too. Maybe you'll catch a cold from buttock-snot licking (?!?!), but eat Kraft Macaroni and Cheese straight from the box and you're likely to break some teeth.