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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brian Cunningham who wrote (41092)	12/21/1997 1:28:00 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>I find RecordIt music is interupted by various activities such as opening applications, clicking the next post on SI Iomega thread, and even typing a post such as this one. I have not observed this problem while working in applications other that Netscape Communicator (i.e. Excel). I am using a Mac with OS 8. I would be interested to learn if this is also a problem on Windows 95. If anyone has any suggestions as to how to aleviate this problem, please post.<< Brian - Unlike music coming from your CD-ROM drive, music playing back from Recordit must be processed by your CPU. Anything which interrupts the processing will interrupt the flow of music. I have not had this problem myself in Windows 95, but that may be due to differences in processor speed. I am running a 200MHz Pentium with MMX. My Micron notebook, which has a 166MHz Pentium MMX also doesn't have any problem handling Recordit playback along with other tasks. I'm not sure what to suggest to alleviate the problem, but I do have a couple of questions. What type of processor are you running, and what speed does it run at? How much memory does your system have? - Allen

To: Brian Cunningham who wrote (41092)	12/21/1997 11:07:00 AM
From: steve goff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>RecordIt impressions< *OT* You are running a mac os8? I've got a mac too. Run both 7.5 and 8 os depending on booting from harddrive or jaz. Packaging on Zipplus in my area shows recordit being for windows. Have been waiting to upgrade to Zipplus when recordit was pc & mac based. I know windows stuff can be run on a mac, but a windows version might slow things down? Did you get a mac version of recordit?

To: Brian Cunningham who wrote (41092)	12/21/1997 12:19:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Respond to of 58324

>>The good news is that the recording process is fast and the sound quality decent. My first compilation is basically Jimi Hendrix's "Rainbow Bridge" which is a favorite of mine that is currently out of print. I recorded 6 tracks, 5 of which seem basically indistinguishable from the CD on my Jensen JPS-45 speakers. Oddly though, one of the tracks seems inferior, but listenable. Anyway, so far so good.<< Excuse me one minute...one eyelid is twitching, and one side of my body is about to go into convulsions. I think it's something called a conniption. Why use an inferior medium like Zip to listen to music, let alone Jimi? CD quality is bad enough, Minidisc is worse, but to squash the sound into little wads of Zip-compressed garbage is sacrilege. You know, there ARE devices known as CD players. They are made to only play CD's, and they do it very well. There is no lag time in your computer. There is no need to upgrade anything. And, best of all, there is no need to squash 650MB of music into 100MB, thereby making Jimi's Little Wing indistinguishable from Wind Beneath My Wings (Ack!). BTW, The good news is, DVD Audio is getting ready, and the sound quality is reported to be 96K sample rate, 32 bit audio. (CD is 44.1k, 16 bit). The data on both mediums is not compressed. If we have to be forced to listen to digital recordings, at least the quality standard is getting better. Zip and other compressed mediums just makes it worse.