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Non-Tech : Iomega Thread without Iomega -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bernhard Michaelis who wrote (4211)	11/16/1998 11:04:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 10072

BM, the IBM microdrive holds 170/340 MB, but won't ship till fall '99. storage.ibm.com For digital cameras Iomega has developed the Click! which holds 40MB per disk [removable] and is much smaller than a ZIP drive. iomega.com G.

To: Bernhard Michaelis who wrote (4211)	11/16/1998 11:07:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

Bernhard - The Rio is a fine idea, but just not practical in its current form. Adding the mini IBM drive wouldn't help, because it would more than triple the cost of the unit, and you'd still have a limited music selection. Would you want a cassette walkman that could only use one tape? If you wanted to change the music, you'd have to re-record different stuff, but you could still only have one tape's worth of music with you at a time. No. You wouldn't want that no matter how cheap it was, and no matter how big the one tape was. And if it cost you 200 bucks and the tape was only one hour? No way. That's the fundamental flaw with the Rio. Now, adding a Clik! drive to the Rio would make it a good package. Cheap, easily transportable media allowing you to play many, many, different tunes. You could set it up so that you just use the Clik! disk to download new tunes to the flash RAM. It only spins for that amount of time. Then you've got skip free tunes, long battery life, and the ability to easily carry many hours worth of music. The best of both worlds. Peace. - Allen