Toshiba's iPod Competitor

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."

Comments

Re:Removeable 5GB HDD

[Geek In Training]

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? :)