On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 10:41, Andy Zbikowski (Zibby) wrote: > Saw someone mention it. Anyone tried one yet, or seen any reviews? I've > only seen one review, and it was rather middle of the road. I've looked at a few reviews. I think the big complaint is that it doesn't (yet) have USB 2.0, plus a lot of people consider it to be bulky (apparently, it's available at CompUSA, so interested parties might want to check there). It sounds like the company is making quite an effort to respond to the concerns of customers (it even appears that they're offering to replace the old USB 1.1 "backpack" with a USB 2.0 version). It's kind of weird, though -- almost as if they're selling a beta version of the player. One way to work the bugs out, I guess. These guys are on my short list for when I finally pick out a portable music player, but that's just because they are planning on supporting Ogg Vorbis and they've been the most vocal about their planned support. Because the recommendation of the Vorbis developers is to only buy players when the format is known to work in shipping versions (either out-of-the-box or with firmware updates), it looks like I still have to hold off on buying one. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Been there, done that, got / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ the T-shirt. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030521/33a4dcb2/attachment.pgp