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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. good news for Linux? by tps12 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think this bodes well for Linux. Though SourceForge likely features many Open Source projects attempting to provide iPod support on Linux and other free *n*xen, Toshiba is giving us a product that works now. This sure makes Linux look pretty good.

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  2. Re:Removeable 5GB HDD by Geek+In+Training · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Decent replacement for floppies? If CD-Rs aren't up to snuff, how about thumb drives? (Little USB keyfob-sized devices with up to 256 megs of flash memory?)

    I got a 128 meg model for $64, and it is plug & chug on most OSes (including XP and OS X).

    Many mobo manufacturers have USB boot/USB Thumb Drive as a boot device option in their BIOSes these days, too.

    I can't think of any reason why you'd want a $321 5GB removable hard drive as a "floppy replacement" before you looked at a small, portable, bootable USB device first. Or were you just first posting? :)

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