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Rio Reveals iPod Mini Slayer
Remik writes "Rio has released a limited edition of its new hard drive based player called Carbon. Coming in lighter and denser (3.2oz with 5 GB of storage) than the Ipod Mini with the same price tag $249, twice the battery life, and nearly the same dimensions. Rio has only made 500 players available in the initial offering, so get one while they last. There's more info at cNet, Pocket Lint and Gizmodo. Highlights: Drag and drop file transfer, charging over USB and Janus compliance."
Scarsity aside, (a) ugly, ugly colors, (b) pathetic battery life (yes, pathetic, since you cannot up it on a hike), (c) no OGG ;-P
My other Beowulf cluster is... er...
> The iPod Mini is pretty, this one looks like someone drop a clump of dough, and
> stuck a display and some buttons in it. But I guess some people like the look
> of dough!
I think the iPod looks crap - like all Apple stuff. And it's too expensive. In my mind, this is prettier and cheaper. I guess everyone is different. At the end of the day, it'll be in my pocket, so I don't really care what it looks like.
i'll just stick with my iriver ihp-120.
...doesn't look like an ugly pile of shit like that rio carbon!
20gb, usb-storage class, not saddled with shitty DRM, plays ogg natively, decent battery life, and...
i mean really, who the fuck keeps coming up with these retarded designs? every rio device is unusably deformed in some way or another. it looks like they always sorta start out with a decent design, then someone in marketing says "no, it's not fucked up enough" so they go around and bash all the design engineers heads with ball peen hammers until they're drooling idiots. then they come back with the ridiculous chiba design and suddenly marketing shouts "eureka!" and starts selling it immediately.
the iriver ihp is no work of art, but it's far less annoying than the chiba or carbon.