From: TP Diffenbach <rockbox_at_diffenbach.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:44:57 -0500

Other than the hard drive type (2.5 vs 1.8) are the HD-500 and the HD-800
the same?

Yes, but Roland, can we convince you to tie it to your dog's collar, to
simulate a year's rough usage in a few days? ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se]On
Behalf Of roland
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 12:22 PM
To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se
Subject: Re: FW: RipDrive MP3 player


> question is, who bells the cat by buying one and knocking it around a bit?
i think i will order one (hd-800) as soon as possible. i contacted them to
send me information about pricing and availability in
europe. i can forward that info to the list, if i receive a response and if
there is interest here.

regards
roland


----- Original Message -----
From: "TP Diffenbach" <rockbox_at_diffenbach.org>
To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 5:56 PM
Subject: RE: FW: RipDrive MP3 player


>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se]On
> Behalf Of Björn Stenberg
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 11:20 AM
> To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se
> Subject: Re: FW: RipDrive MP3 player
>
>
> TP Diffenbach wrote:
> > Agreed, but being less mechanically inclined than you, I'd want to see
> their
> > source for low-level hardware interaction routines.
>
> Agreed. My point was just that asking companies for source code often
scares
> them. Asking for hardware information appears to be less threatening.
>
> --
> Björn
>
>
> Point taken.
>
> But when companies ask me for $300, it often scares me that their hardware
> may be unusable because of crap software. If it hadn't been for Rockbox,
I'd
> likely have returned my Archos.
>
> Which brings up another point: maybe I should have returned it anyway,
given
> that hardware problems have rendered it an inoperable $550 paper-weight.
The
> RipDrive/X-clef looks nice (and will look even nicer with a 60GB drive),
but
> I don't want another Archos-level quality control nightmare. Of course,
the
> question is, who bells the cat by buying one and knocking it around a bit?
>
Received on 2003-12-19