It's not as beautifully simple as an iPod, but it's not ugly either.
If the picture of it sitting next to headphones is to scale, it's about the size of a videocassette.
It uses USB instead of FireWire, but as much as I love my iPod, that's not as big an argument as some people would have you think. Once you get the entire library on there (spend an hour or so with USB), everything else is just delta updates.
A 20GB hard drive is NICE. I'm already resenting managing the playlists on my pod to keep under 5GB. On the other hand, it ensures I only hear my favourite music on the road;)
The price isn't really competitive, so basically what you're getting is a much larger hard drive in a much larger package. And PC compatibility out of the box, for you poor benighted PC-using souls;)
So, not quite an iPod killer, but should give Apple pause about the price of the pod.
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It's not as beautifully simple as an iPod, but it's not ugly either.
;)
;)
If the picture of it sitting next to headphones is to scale, it's about the size of a videocassette.
It uses USB instead of FireWire, but as much as I love my iPod, that's not as big an argument as some people would have you think. Once you get the entire library on there (spend an hour or so with USB), everything else is just delta updates.
A 20GB hard drive is NICE. I'm already resenting managing the playlists on my pod to keep under 5GB. On the other hand, it ensures I only hear my favourite music on the road
The price isn't really competitive, so basically what you're getting is a much larger hard drive in a much larger package. And PC compatibility out of the box, for you poor benighted PC-using souls
So, not quite an iPod killer, but should give Apple pause about the price of the pod.