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Duncan, mused, then expounded: |
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> For that reason, I'm writing Archos off as a choice at this point in time. |
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> Due to their popularity, support for iPods is a fairly good gamble, even |
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> yet to be released models with different hardware. It may take awhile, |
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> but it's fairly likely to happen. The iriver h10s look to be the only |
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> other close to viable alternatives in the 20+ gig range, at this point. |
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> There are several sub-10GB flash based players in various stages of |
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> support, but that's not what I'm looking at. |
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The Neuros Audio 2 come with an 80GB drive, supports Vorbis and has |
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had an open firmware project for a couple of years now. The price is |
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less than an iPod as it's being discontinued. While not offically |
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supported or sactiioned, both the hard drive and battery can be replaced. |
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I had the first version, just as Vorbis support was deing added. Upgraded |
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my hard drive with a standard laptop unit, and used it for a few years |
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before it finally died - probably too much poking around inside trying to |
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get a better understanding of it. The first version's audio wasn't all that |
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great, but then most people won't care. And it's a bit bulky as it takes |
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2.5" drives and it seperates into two pieces. |
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After mine died, I picked up an Iriver IFP-999 which is quite nice, |
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very good audio and quite small. But I miss having 40 GB of space |
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as 1 GB is very limiting in the music I can carry. |
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Neuros has the replacment device on hold as they are just finishing up |
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the OSD - kind of a portable, networked VCR that uses CF, SD, etc. cards, |
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runs linux with a version of e17 as the display manager. |
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Rasterman, himself, created the display manager and has (or had, I haven't |
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followed the irc logs lately) worked quite hard on it. |
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There is a pretty active, though small, community supporting the Neuros |
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Audio devices. There main website is - http://www.neurosaudio.com/ |
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And there development process is fairly open - irc dev logs, with some |
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mild censoring, blogs, wiki, and support forums. |
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As for me, after mucking in the swamps of Myth, I'm looking forward to |
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the OSD. |
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Bob |
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