and...not to mention...a conduit for piracy!
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,50688,00.html
Ed
web/gadget guru
--- Patrick Jendraszak <indyibook_at_insightbb.com>
wrote:
> The following article appeared in last week's eWeek.
> I thought some
> folks might be interested in it.
>
> THE iPOD IS MORE THAN JUST A MUSIC BOX
> Peter Coffee: Convergence Points (eWeek, April 22,
> 2002, p. 66)
>
> Wouldn't it be ironic if the processor became a
> peripheral to the
> storage device, instead of the other way around? I
> asked that question
> at the end of this column eight months ago, and
> users of Apple's iPod
> are busily turning that conjecture into fact.
> Refuting many critics,
> the iPod is turning out to be much more than an
> overpriced, overdesigned
> MP3 music player.With its face IEEE 1394 bandwith
> (FireWire to Apple
> loyalists), the iPod's 5GB hard disk (now also
> offered in a 10GB
> edition) is more than theoretically usable as a
> portable boot device. As
> in days of your, when PC users carried personal boot
> disks, an iPod
> owner can feel truly at home on any modern
> Macintosh.
>
> At $399, the smaller iPod makes any laptop computer
> look like an
> expensive way to carry a personal data repository
> with a customized
> digitial desktop: In many environments, a handful of
> shared macs could
> meet the needs of many users. (And since the debut
> of the 10GB iPod at
> $499, brand-new 5 GB units are selling on eBay for
> an
> even-more-affordable $280.)
>
> Even when not plugged in to a "mother ship" Mac, the
> iPod does more than
> play music. With Apple's latest software, it also
> takes on contact
> management duties. Third-party hackers are doing
> still more;
> PersonaPodX, a $25 shareware utility, combines
> contact management with
> alarm clock, notepad and multimedia preview
> capabilities. PodNews, a
> free download, pulls headlines from selected news
> sites; included source
> code lets you tailor your selections.
=====
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