4. We recommend having at least 1.6 GHz. Unlike its big brothers, RT.X100 or RT2500, X10 cannot process the MPEG-2 format directly. It must first be converted to DV. This process not only takes time but also requires more hard-drive capacity. On the other hand,...

up, as the price of solid-state memory drops after the successful launch of the iPod Nano. While they might not offer the huge capacity of hard-drive based players they do benefit from a complete lack of moving parts, which makes them great for active use....

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belongs to ultra-portable hard drives featuring USB 2.0 Prices here range from three to seven dollars per GB, depending on hard-drive model, capacity, interface(s) and seller. Nowadays USB 2.0 is the standard in this category. The storage capacity for...

you only got to play music for four hours, which is not enough to tie you through your vacation. Or else you could have a hard-drive player and enough capacity to hold your entire music library, regardless of how big it is. But that means the device is too...

Technology At The Leading Edge... Or Bleeding Edge?. archos gmini xs 200. Chic, small and light with gigs and gigs of space for music files: that's how consumers want their hard-drive based audio players. Archos Gmini XS 200 packs 20 GB of capacity into a featherweight...

Out No/No B=Backside, L=Left side, R=Right Side To ensure that the results of hard-drive measurements are comparable with one another, a 20 GB FAT32 partition was set up on each hard drive, regardless of its theoretical maximum capacity. For each individual...

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portable audio players that don't utilize a proprietary compression format, as mentioned earlier. One of the most significant advantages of flash-based audio players when compared to hard-drive based units or CD players is the fact that the lack of moving parts...

Simple But Effective. archos gmini 220. How many features can an OEM pack into one device? At what point will multi-media player reverse engineering and miniaturization end? Archos' Gmini 220 crams 20 GB of storage capacity in a device half the size of competing...