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Originally Posted by UlTiMaTeP
ipod is a waste, if it could be used as a good usb dump station i would love it, but considering the hard drive only writes at 80mbit's thats kinda sad  |
I always thought HDD read/write speeds were measured in MB/s (megabytes per second). I also thought that 80 MB/s was a fairly standard speed for HDD access. Maybe I was mistaken.
Anyway, I was considering getting an iPod for a while, but the main problem that I have with it is that it doesn't support Ogg Vorbis. Being as a vast majority of my (quite legal, may I say) music collection has been ripped to Ogg Vorbis, this was a huge concern of mine. However, to my pleasure, Rio recently released the Karma, which supports Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, WAV, and WMA (ick, I feel dirty for even typing that one). It comes in 20GB and 40GB flavors, but 20GB is quite enough for me. I've had it for a few weeks, now, and I must say, I really love it. It's not too big, as some Apple-biased websites might have you think, and the interface is, from my fairly limited experience with a friend's iPod, at least as good as the iPod's, if not better. I can't find any reasons why not to suggest that any real audiophile (read: someone familiar with Ogg Vorbis and FLAC) not buy a Rio Karma, I sure as heck love mine.
Just my two cents.