[fats277]

Does anyone think that a player will come out that would offer type II flash card slots to accept the IBM Microdrives?

It would be nice to have a player be the size of a RIO and hold 1 GB...

fats277

[PeteL999]

Go here - http://www.kanguru.com/mp3.html#hdmp3 they have a 2.5 inch long 4 GB mp3 player for $300 and a 3.5 inch long mp3 player for $230. They don't have the good looks of the rios and nomads and they lack a LCD screen which kinda sucks but they might be good. I don't have one I hav a Nomad II I dont need the gigabytes worth of storage

[RichardS]

Fats, the Rio 600 and 800 have a backpack system which allows you to slip various memory backpacks onto the player.

The player doesn't care what's in these backpacks, be it a clik disk, flash card, or IBM MicroDrive. The bad side is you can't place the media in the backpack yourself, you have to buy the backpack with the media in there.

Backpacks with 300+ meg IBM MicroDrives are already on sale, and the 1gigs are coming soon. It'll be EXPENSIVE.

I would suggest going for Iomega's HipZip, driven off of Clik disks. The disks are extremely tiny, cost $10 for 40 megs ($1/4megs) and are rewritable. (They're SMALL! About 1 inch x 1 inch, and about 1.5 mm thick). Flash memory costs about $2/meg, so using the Clik disks is EIGHT TIMES less expensive than flash.

Also, the Kanguru is NOT portable. It requires an external power source.

[This message has been edited by RichardS (edited 01-01-2001).]

[marusin]

I second the recomendation for the Iomega Hip Zip... I got one for Christmas (and a 10 pack of Pocket Zips)... Very small and cheap media... Rechargable battery in the Player...

Great sound as well... My only complaint is about a one second pause between tracks while the zip spins up and loads the track into memory...

-Mike

[fats277]

I'd be into the hipzip if the disks were of larger capacity. I see 500MB as a the minimum amount of files that I'd like to carry around without extra disks, backpacks, etc.

500MB might be unreasonable for hipzip disks, but I hope we'll see lithium battery powered 1gb microdrive players that are around the size of the Rio models.

Who knows....I had the Nomad Jukebox but I realized that I didn't need it for home use, couldn't use it easily as a portable because of size and short battery length, and I don't have a car (NYC resident)

we'll see

[PeteL999]

What did you do with the jukebox?

[fats277]

Sent it back to Amazon.com

I was going to mail it to you PeteL, but I forgot your address

heh