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To: Craig M. Newmark who wrote (124660)	1/11/2001 10:33:43 AM
From: SisterMaryElephant	Respond to of 186894

Craig, Here is another. This from a Mac enthusiast as well. cnet.com My Crush on the Concert Audio Player By Jesse Berney (1/7/01) Perhaps it's ill-advised for me to pass judgment on a product before I take an extensive look at it. My fellow editors at CNET and I certainly don't enjoy eating our words, so I'm disinclined to rush into judgments based on a first look. But sometimes I just can't help myself, and I get excited by a gadget at the initial glance. I can only hope that I don't pay the price later. With that caveat in mind, I have to say that Intel's new Pocket Concert Audio Player blows its competition out of the water. More of What I Want The Pocket Concert has a sleek design, with translucent blue trim, and it fits nicely in your hand. The interface is simple, with just the basic controls needed to play music. It has the FM tuner that should be standard on MP3 players at this point, and it runs for up to ten hours on two AAA batteries, according to Intel. It also has a fast USB interface and costs about $300. None of this, however, sets it apart from its competition. So what's so great about the Intel product? It couldn't be simpler: more memory. For the same price as that of most new MP3 players with 64MB of flash memory, Intel packs in 128MB. It's not expandable beyond the onboard memory, but most players never go higher than a total of 128MB with memory cards anyway. Intel gives you twice the music--two hours of MP3s recorded at 128 kbps--right out of the box. How can there be any question which player you'd want? It has a couple of nice extras, too. The bookmarking feature, for example, will save your place even when you turn off the machine. This is especially convenient for people who like to listen to audio books or other spoken-word media. No Mac Support, but Nothing's Perfect Although this player comes with the proprietary Intel Audio Manager, it also works with MusicMatch Jukebox. (I was a bit put off, however, by its lack of Mac support. I know: it's Intel, but still.) There's a bonus pack for another $50 that includes a car adapter kit, a set of rechargeable batteries, and a docking station, which lets you connect the player to a stereo via RCA connection. I'm not so sure the pack is worth it, though, since the car adapter kit and batteries are available separately for far cheaper, and the docking station seems of dubious usefulness. I can't help myself--I just love this player. With twice the capacity for the same price as that of many of its competitors, the Pocket Concert takes digital audio players to a new level.