Special and general purpose small computing devices
Brad Choate waxes lyrical over the Neuros Digital Audio Computer, a portable mp3 player. He lists some features for it:
- 20GB capacity
- Vorbis audio support
- $399
If you’re going to spend that much on an mp3 player anyway, then can I make a suggestion? Buy a Sharp Zaurus PDA. It’s got more memory, it’ll do pretty much as much stuff from a music-playing point of view, and, guess what: you get a fully functional Linux box in your pocket for free. The prices (in America) seem roughly comparable, the dimensions equally are not too far apart. Admittedly the Neuros has a built-in digital radio, but in those times when you don’t know what to do because you’ve listened to all your mp3s, you could perhaps read an e-book or write some code or browse the web using GPRS and your mobile or play with all the other Z software that you’ve got installed.
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That’s OK, Aq. only has three CDs. ;PAnd anyway you know you all really want an iPod. Some dude has got Linux to run on it too: http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/
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The price of the Zaurus SL-5500 just dropped in the US as well, to $192.
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I think the drawback is space. You can’t get a lot onto the Z without spending a lot on extra storage and you don’t get 20Gb. I can get 2 or 3 CD’s on mine.Of course, the other things you can do with the Zaurus, more than make up for this.
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