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| hornygoatweed I've Got A Vagina With Teeth. G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Dragoon Battalion My friends call me Weed | posted on 11-16-2001 @ 3:32 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01  | From ZDNet - This is short enough to c/p : Apple made a big noise about the recent launch of its iPod Mac-only digital music player, but Windows users so far haven't been able to jump on the bandwagon. That may change soon, however, with software maker Mediafour planning a Windows client to handle iPod. The software, XPod, would let users with a Windows PC and a FireWire port connect to the device. Mediafour announced this week that it is at work on an XPod beta, but did not give a launch date. IPod has won the praise of many critics for combining the high storage capacity of players like Creative's Jukebox with the pocket-sized form factor of more traditional digital music players. It costs or $399 in the U.S., and is available on Apple's Web site. There's one catch, however: most Windows machines, unlike Macs, don't come with FireWire built in, an exception being Sony's VAIO series. FireWire add-on cards are available, but will add another expense to the already pricey iPod. Mediafour, based in West Des Moines, Iowa, makes cross-platform Windows-Mac software, such as MacDrive, which lets Windows read and write Mac disks. I'm not a fan of Macs, but I am impressed with the iPod. If this software enables me to be able to use it, I'd pick one up (or at least ask Santa for one to put under the tree for me this year). And I don't see the added cost of adding a Firewire card to my PC as a negative - most people have one, and they can always double in use for video editing, so its not like it would be a piece of hardware that gets unused or obsolete.  You can reach me through AIM or email. Don't be shy, drop a line and say Hi! This message was edited by hornygoatweed on 11-16-01 @ 3:44 PM | ||||
| adolescentmasturbator | posted on 11-16-2001 @ 5:04 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | The iPod is so cool. Too bad you can't warez hardware lol. I might get one eventually. I just hope they add more space. 6 gigs just isn't enough :).  Resident Board Socialist IM me at stickysituation2 | ||||
| George Peterson
| posted on 11-24-2001 @ 10:08 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: Six gigs? We should be so lucky: The drive it uses is a 1.8" Toshiba 5GB unit. A normal Laptop HD is 2.5", just to give you a sense of size. But, hey, I'm not complaining.
FoundryMusicHummercash, I feel your pain. | ||||
| RandomNY | posted on 11-30-2001 @ 9:02 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | I have the NEO came with a 20 gig hard drive. It was 399 at CompUSA it's down to like 250 now I think and you can change the hard drive if you want to. It's USB so the speed sucks but you get a huge amount of space for music or files or programs. there are cheaper ones that are USB 2.0 when that finally comes out. | ||||
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