At 9:57 AM -0400 10/24/01, Eric D. wrote: > >BTW can you use it as a normal HD? If so, then it's a useful device.
>From what I've read, yes. In fact, the same HD mechanism is used in a third-party portable firewire hard drive product (whose name I've forgotten) that sells for, get this, $399 US. So the iPod is the same price, and it plays music too! (and I'm sure is much more stylish) There's been lots of silly griping about this thing on misc. sites, and even hardcore mac addicts are falling prey to the old apples-to-oranges comparisons. Such as when the 800MHz G4 is unfavorably rated next to some generic cheap PC 1GHz box with vastly inferior components. If you compare apple computers to actual quality PCs (leaving aside the question of whether that's an oxymoron or not), macs don't have nearly the price disadvantage they used to. So folks are saying this thing is 'only an MP3 player' and then comparing it to some thing with a 64M flash card in it (holding 9 songs vs. 1000), or some 6G thing with USB connectivity that weighs 3 times as much--how long do you think it will take to load your 5G of songs at 12M/sec vs. 400? are you really going to carry something that weighs a pound around? not to mention that this Nomad thing has a famously inelegant interface. Not that I'm going to buy one--too much money, I don't listen to MP3's, and I don't have a firewire Mac. But all that means is that I'm not in the target market. Hopefully Apple will have done some research that there is a target market that will sustain this cute little product. . . Mark -- Mac Canada is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop Canadian, visit Mantek Services <http://www.mantek.mb.ca> Low Prices That Will Keep YOU and Your MAC Smiling Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Canada info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-can.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-canada%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
