Advantages: value for money, capacity, sound quality Disadvantages: poor firmware and instructions
...means is that the 20GB Thomson model feels more like 40GB if you switch to MP3PRO (which, incidentally, was developed by Thomson). I have 357 CDs worth of material recorded at top quality and the drive is just a shade over half full. It'll doubtless see out my musical development.
The device itself is a fairly sleek two-tone silver affair, although the high gloss chrome finish is rather prone to fingerprints. It has a roughly 4*3cm blue backlit ... ...In use, generally fine, but Thomson will need to update the firmware for the 2840 pretty sharpish. As it is now the performance of the machine stands or falls on what directory structure you set up for the MP3 files on the hard drive. With some 6000 files on there in one root directory it was originally excrutiatingly slow to find a file, advance to the next track on an album or even stop the machine. Sometimes it crashed. I figured out that if I ...
anthonylees 28.09.2003 (04.10.2003)
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