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

Paul Winkler pw_lists at slinkp.com
Sun Mar 18 16:55:01 EDT 2007


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
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