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Sony's Walkman "Bean"
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Sony's Walkman Bean going head to head with the Shuffle. Funky little shape, funky colors; too bad Apple is likely to leapfrog Sony with rumored shuffles just around when the Beans become available...
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Hyrule
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OMG that thing looks AWFUL. WTF?
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Aloha
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Senior User
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Austin, Texas
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Disgusting.
I used to own a Sony Net-MD Walkman (minidisc player) and if that portable device uses Sonic Stage - it will sell like a lead balloon.
Not to mention the high price - $179.00 for a 1GB model? That's ridiculous. I'd rather get a 4GB iPod mini and spend the exact same amount, with my educational discount. For the price of the 512mb model you could get a 1GB iPod shuffle ($129).
Oh and it's set to be released on September 30th - right in line with the Apple Expo. Not a smart move, Sony.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: MacNN database error. Please refresh your browser.
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Even PC Mag is down on it.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Singapore
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What, yet another "iPod killer" wannabe? 
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mac.goodies webstore / Switched to an iBook in November 2002. Never looking back.
iBook R.I.P. 20 Nov 2002 - 2 Aug 2005
Hello Leopard! On iMac 17" Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz 2GB, iPod 5th gen 30GB and iPhone
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: The Netherlands
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"Have you beans in the ears?"  (Otto Waalkes)
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I'm-a trying to wonder, wonder, wonder why you, wonder, wonder why you act so.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Aug 2004
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I have owned several MD units and tried a couple of different sony mp3 players. The Sony hardware is excellent (or was til they outsourced from Japan)...esp. the Pocket Vaio. I SO wanted to keep that device, but in the end, sonic stage just kills all the love I have for Sony products.
While Sony could eaisly come out with a device that is twice as reliable and twice a pretty to look at, they just cannot win with that terrible software.
I admit it now, I have become a pod person.
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Aug 2005
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My eyes hurt after looking at that!
I love Apple's clean and beautiful styling.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Aug 2005
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last year i bought a minidisc player as the solution to all my digital music needs. until i bought a powerbook and realized the only way im going to get functionality with itunes is to buy an ipod. though im not a huge fan of the ipod and i believe in many ways apple is exploiting their digital music market share, i have little choice. perhaps once a colour ipod mini comes out ill pick one up.
cheers
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Baninated
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Illinois might be cold and flat, but at least it's ugly.
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Does it come with a nice Chianti?
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Jul 2005
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haha, it's shape reminds me of the Dane Cook joke about the Cashew and... well I can't really say on here, go buy this new CD "Retaliation".
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Having purchased the iPod shuffle, I have some reservations about it. The 'generic' equaliser setting (which I can't change like with my regular iPod) is very 'washed out' and it didn't support Apple Lossless, of which many of my tunes are in.
It would be nice to have a repeat one song setting, if I wanted to listen to the same song repeatedly.
The new Sony shuffle-'beater' has the following features that impress:
a long (50 hour) battery life
variety of equaliser presets
an FM tuner for when I just want a change of pace
a read-out (handy to have)
The software is not Mac-compatible (iirc).
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Baninated
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Illinois might be cold and flat, but at least it's ugly.
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If it is not Mac compatible it can't be a "shuffle" beater.
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Originally Posted by budster101
If it is not Mac compatible it can't be a "shuffle" beater.
Where did I say that?
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Last edited by ShadowKatana; Aug 26, 2005 at 02:58 AM.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Jul 2005
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You didn't andretan did:
What, yet another "iPod killer" wannabe?
I still think they have people in rooms thinking up every angle of the situation, if the Bean is Mac-Compatible then it becomes a "iPod Basher", but then mac users will tell their Windows friends what they think Sony is trying to do to Apple, and thats just bad for buissness. But the Mac user's are largely too loyal to Apple (hence us talking on this forum) to buy the bean any way. SO they solve the problem buy losing a couple hundered sales to the Mac only (don't have a PC) comunity.
Get it????????
P.S. I could probly get a job as one of those people pretty easily... 
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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Just what I wanted, a bladder player. 
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Yeah the shape choice was pretty poor... it looks like:
-a bladder
-a cashew
-a bean (big surprise...)
-a mis-shapen boomerang
-a peice of crap (and it is one two)
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