My bad. I recalled seeing on the Apple website that there were "no moving parts", and now that I go back and read carefully, they are talking about the interface, not the parts inside. Looking into the tech specs, they do indeed quote that these have hard drives in them.
At any rate, it doesn't change my mind about purchasing one for use as I outlined below.
Bill On Sunday, December 7, 2003, at 11:17 PM, John Francis wrote:
William,
Here's a thought, instead of getting a portable HD which has moving
parts, get yourself an iPod. 20 GB will run you $400. You can buy an
adapter that will read media cards (Belkin media card adapter runs
$100). Now you have a portable musics system, are able to download
your pictures from CF cards, and from my understanding there are no
movable parts inside of these things.
Apple would disagree with you.
According to the main apple web site, the iPod contains either a 10, 20 or 40 gb hard drive.
Think about it: a 1 GB solid-state compact flash card costs $200 or so - a 2GB over twice that. Is it really likely that apple can sell you an order of magnitude more solid-state memory for that price?
