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MP3 or PDA?
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Nov 21, 2001, 10:21 PM
 
It has a 5GB drive, 32 MB of RAM. Dual Processors. Nice hi-res LCD display. A ten-hour battery. Comes with games. Custom-built operating system. Firewire port.
No, it is not a laptop.
This, friends, is an MP3 player.
So really now, which is it? Pixo, the company that made the iPod's OS (as well as various cellphone OS's), also makes loads of PDA software. With the right modifications, it can be loaded and run on an iPod. What are we going to see next?
An Apple PDA?
Or, perhaps the more appropriate question is,
Do we nearly already have one?
This is surely a sign. Apple might not tell you this, but the iPod already as support for all kinds of things that aren't used yet...CD burning, Infrared interface (which will mean effortless tranferring of songs from one iPod to another), and dozens of other things. The iPod is essentially a stripped-down PDA, and it definitely the most sophisticated--and practical-- MP3 player yet. I strongly urge everyone to tell Apple and everyone else how you feel!
This is surely a sign of greater things to come..

oh, and please feel free to visit my site, http://www.epix3d.8m.com.
eoban, the intellectual fool who falls up and screams softly

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"for every action there is an equal and opposite government program."
     
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Nov 23, 2001, 04:01 AM
 
dare to dream.

for my 200 bucks (pixar deal) i'm willing to accept mp3 and bootable HD, but i'd like more, and i think like you do about the possibilities...there's more to come, i'm sure.
     
   
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