Re: [linux-audio-user] To MacBook or not to MacBook, that's the question

From: Paul Winkler <pw_lists@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Mar 18 2007 - 22:55:01 EET

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 02:51:31PM -0400, carmen wrote:

> and of course they also differentiate on features. not that
> iRiver/iAudio's FM tuner, longer batter life, FLAC and ogg support,
> line in, ability to record from line in or FM, video codecs people
> actually use like Xvid, standard filesystem schema, and lower price
> all combined are enough to nullify the power of Apple's
> marketing/aura/distortion-field in the mind of the average
> consumer-slave...

Much as I love my iRiver HP120's feature set, it suffers from a really
really bad UI. I keep meaning to try Rockbox to see if it's any
better, but I haven't had the time. And that won't help people trying
out stuff in a store.

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Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com
Received on Mon Mar 19 00:15:02 2007

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