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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. 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.

  2. 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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