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e.Digital Promises Another iPod Competitor
joefefifo writes: "e.Digital has a press release describing their Odyssey 1000, supposedly due out in the fall. Some stats: Looks like an iPod, uses USB 2.0., has a 20GB capacity, built-in mic for voice recording and navigation, FM Tuner with 12 presets, Mac & PC compatible, iTunes compatible, runs e.Digital's MicroOS 2.0. Except for the choice of OS, looks pretty sweet. Any chance someone will get it to run Linux instead?" Like Toshiba's little player, it uses USB 2 rather than Firewire.
It is huge, heavy, and doesn't run as long on the batteries as an ipod. Also ugly.
That would be because Apple sued the sh*t out of Dell, Gateway and IBM for ripping it off.
Not only does this player support Windows and USB 2.0, it also has support for the superior WMA audio codec. As WMA can encode better sounding music at half the bitrate of MP3, this effectively doubles its capacity. Good going, e.Digital.
For pete's sake, a firewire card is like $40. This is nothing more than another pathetic (and probably intel-backed) attempt to promote the ubiquity of USB and the elimination of the obviously superior firewire.
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>Nubus vs. PCI or AGP? No friggin contest!
Uhh, I didn't say ISA or Nubus or whateverthehellyoucallit is _better_, just that anyone with legacy cards gets screwed with a Mac, whereas with a PC, anyone with a little clue can save a couple of bucks on a soundcard, printer port, serial port, or even a SCSI board for a scanner if they get a Mobo with an ISA slot.
A lack of backward compatibility, especially when a proper design means it should cost almost nothing to implement, is a flaw, not a feature.
>And to top it off, today's Macs ARE PowerPC, dumbass.
Well, fuck you very much. I'm obviously no Mac afficando, but I do know I have better manners than you.
>If you need a serial port, you can get an adapter.
Which won't work for my applications. And won't work with (albeit outdated) older software.
Not to mention that the older busses, such as ISA are just so much simpler to hack with.
>How about because not everyone who uses a computer is a geek?
Geeks reccomend computers to non-geeks. Guess which type of computer wins? Not to mention that cool hardware is designed by geeks who would just rather work with a system that works with them, rather than against them.
Well, you really don't need to guess. By all reason, if you were to cut out artists from the equation, Mac is dead.
Oh, and companies like intel don't lie about the performance of their computers (well, in the case of PCs, CPUs) whereas Apple prefers to do the next best thing to lying -- finding one or two applications that are faster on your computer (mostly because they were designed on your computer) and say your entire computer is the best on earth.
Blech. Keep those overgrown (and damn HOT) plastic tissue boxes away from me. Give me a computer with quality RF sheilding and a proper heat extraction system anyday. Not to mention I prefer to buy a decent monitor and speakers for even my cheap systems. And not to mention that a majority of non-geeks I know like to have a good monitor and speakers. I thought we gave up on built in monitors during the TRS-80 and PET days?
[And yes, I know you can buy Macs without built in monitors, I just think its insane that it often costs more to get one without a monitor than with!]
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