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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. Re:Advantage? by Latent+IT · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'd say that Apple definitely has the advantage here because:

    1) The Ipod is smaller, lighter, and has a bigger screen.
    2) The battery is a Lithium Polymer, which can support playback of up to 13 hours, by some user reports, while this hunk of junk may very well use AA's.
    3) It costs, oddly enough, $10 more, even though Toshiba makes the hard disc, and it has *ahem* a smaller screen.
    4) The backlight can't be nearly as good.
    5) USB 2.0 can't power the unit, while firewire can, so I never have to bring an AC adaptor *anywhere*.

    I think that you maybe didn't read the article?