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D-Link Roq-it 10 GB (DMP-HD610) MP3 Player
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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An iPod type player, with double the capacity, equalizer and also half the price.
Whats revolutionary about the iPod again?
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Originally posted by Sean2068:
<STRONG>An iPod type player, with double the capacity, equalizer and also half the price.
Whats revolutionary about the iPod again?</STRONG>
Size, firewire, and usability.
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The D-Link Roq-it is just massive. When I saw a picture of it...I didn't think it was so bad...it has great features, but when I saw it in person and picked the bad boy up....Man oh man...the thing is huge.
It is a great deal though...but, no firewire and small size.
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<Sean206844>
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is Firewire, and usability worth 200dollars more?
Why did i remove size? because the Rok is around the same size as the iPod. Plus it has crossfading and an equalizer.
p.s. How do you know the Rok isn't usable? bought one already have we?
Look im a big fan of the iPod and would buy one in a heart beat, but 400dollars is just stupid. I hope to buy an iPod if the price is reduced, which is why i'm glad of competition.
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<Forgot my PW>
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Originally posted by <Sean206844>:
is Firewire, and usability worth 200dollars more?
Yes, it is. I have no time to wait for my Mp3's to download on to my player over USB. It is just way too slow. The iPod transfers the songs increbibly fast. I'm sure apple is working on a firmware update that will include a equalizer and a crossfade feature (that is, if it's possible. I think it is)
The 400 dollar price tag places the iPod on the high end, but it is probably the best 400 dollars I've ever spent.
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Bristol, UK, living in Melbourne, Australia
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Originally posted by <Forgot my PW>:
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Yes, it is. I have no time to wait for my Mp3's to download on to my player over USB. It is just way too slow. The iPod transfers the songs increbibly fast.</STRONG>
with a 10 GB drive, how often are you going to be changing the music library on your player?
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Size is the same? Lets see:
iPod: 102 x 62 x 20 mm (H x W x D)
Dlink: 120 x 142.5 x 27 mm (H x W x D)
So that means its longer by 20mm, over twice as wide and 7mm thicker. Doesn't sound like the same size to me, seems like its a lot bigger overall. Plus it weighs more and gets 2 hrs less battery life. Plus its got usb (no firewire), plus it uses Windows Explorer as interface software. Only a 2 meg buffer (which means the hd is spinning more and will probably die sooner)
But it does have a 10gb hd, crossfading and an equalizer.
I'll keep my iPod. You get what you pay for.
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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hahahahahahahaha
yeah....like i would even purchase something from "D-Link"
D-Link, synonymous with 19.99 cd players at k-mart
D-Link, the infamous bandwagon jumpers from mp3 players to mp3 cd players that rip off design as much as product ingenuity....and your comparing a D-Link device with an Apple device?
Does this Sean2068 guy have a "E-machine" as well?
Seriously, Sean2068....good luck, enjoy it. I know i'll still be using my ipod long after D-link goes out of business.
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Join Date: Apr 2000
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Originally posted by tinrib:
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with a 10 GB drive, how often are you going to be changing the music library on your player?</STRONG>
That's not unlike saying, "With a 70GB drive, how often are you going to install new software?" There may be people who have a static music collection, they rip their CD's once, download to the mp3 player, and they are done forever. My music collection is much more fluid. I may get around to one day finishing the ripping of my entire music colleciton, but until that time, I love having the "hot synch" capability of the iPod. It's fast, but just as important, I don't have to go thru all my mp3's to figure out which I haven't added to the ipod and which are already on there. iTunes knows. Addtionally, the interface is just head and shoulders above everything else I've seen. Everyone of my firends who have picked my iPod up figure out how to use the thing in a matter of min. I have played with others at the store and never quite gotten it.
I would love the iPod to have a 10GB drive, and I'm sure it will. I would love it to have cross-fading, and it probably will. The equalizer would be nice, but I'd probably never use it.. I suspect many others wouldn't either. It will, however, probably be added. I wish the iPod cost a few hundred dollars less. But it doesn't. In my opinion, and in the opinion of almost every reviewer who has played with it, the iPod, despite it's shortcomings, is the best mp3 player on the market. I thought it might be when I bought it. After using it for a week, I'm sure.
Paco
[ 12-18-2001: Message edited by: Paco500 ]
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Paco is bitter about the loss of his .mac webpage. Image will return when his sadness lessens.
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