Another iPod Competitor

rael9real writes "NOMAD has intoduced a new player. It has USB 2 and FireWire (finally), and supports WMA and MP3. It has a 20GB drive like the high-end iPod, and supposedly holds more music because it supports WMA (though why someone would want to use WMA is beyond me). It *is* cheaper than the iPod, though. Looks like a definite competitor. Maybe it'll drive iPod pricing down." Update: 10/14 21:21 GMT by T : Note that the listed specs for the player mention only "USB," not USB 2.

Re:20 GB hard drive?

[Anonymous Coward]

Fucktard.

Outlook user.

Re:you confuse me

[Anonymous Coward]

The average car can hold you and four supermodels, or you and three dozen rabid, incontinent weasles.

So you want the weasles, right? More of something is automatically better.

Re:Numbers head-to-head vs. 20 GB iPod

[GlobalEcho]

Plus you can get the Zen with a multi-button mouse!

(/me ducks, runs)

Re:20 GB hard drive?

[Anonymous Coward]

Outlook user.

Liberal

Re:20 GB hard drive?

[Anonymous Coward]

Liberal

Shit. You've got me there. I've got no comeback for that one. Can we be friends now?

Want LOTS of music on it?

[shrikel]

holds more music because it supports WMA (though why someone would want to use WMA is beyond me)

I'm waiting for them to come out with one that supports .mid, so I can fit MILLIONS of hours on the drive. My dream is to listen to music constantly for the rest of my life without repeating a song once.

And those horrible video game music loops don't count. ;)

Re:OGG!

[Citizen of Earth]

Even though the customer may have no clue what OGG is, the salesperson does.

*And* he'll even have the same unit at home!

Re:Purchas price and links

[rschwa]

You'd think they would include an iTunes plug-in to try and get some of the Apple users.

Feh, why bother? Show me a mac user who won't pay twice the price for half the product as long as it says Apple on it.

Waste of time.

Re:Shock absorbtion?

[ngoy]

Wow, a whole new use for RAM.

"Hey honey, can we get this Ferrai instead of the minivan? It's much safer, comes with 1 gig of RAM instead of the 256MB in the van. We could hit a brick wall and not feel a thing! Just think how safe our children will be!

By your "interpretation" of the meaning of buffer cache, I assume RAMBUS is RAM that is either shaped like a bus, or is a busload of RAM; DDRRAM is as big as my wife's breasts; and EDO RAM is the main memory type of Edo Japan.

Do you actually know what the inside of a harddrive looks like? Extra RAM helps shock absorbtion as much as my mother-in-law's lack of bathing helps body odor.

ngoy