J&R Music and Computer World: Archos Jukebox 5000 Portable MP3 Player. I have had the Archos Jukebox Studio 10 MP3 player for over half a year now and I cannot imagine life now without an MP3 player. I just so happened to come across this deal when reading the NY Times during lunch today and just had to let everyone know that it's a steal! People over at rockbox
have hacked the Archos Jukebox/JB Recorder to death! You can buy this cheap unit and upgrade the hard drive to a whopping 60 GB or more. The sky's the limit. That's three times as big as the biggest Apple iPod that you can buy at the moment at a quarter of the price. You must be thinking to yourself, "what could I really do with this player? do I really need to spend that money?" Here's what I use it for:
1. Listening to music while doing monotonous lab chores.
2. Listening to music or songs while commuting to and from the lab.
3. Have the headphones on, pretending not to be able to hear your boss griping in the lab as he walks by.
4. Use the unit as an external hard drive to store powerpoint presentations that I copy to the laptop controlling the projector.
5. Use the unit as a backup drive to store other important data.
6. I am planning to use the unit to play MP3's of recorded talk shows recorded from the radio -- e.g. Car Talk.
7. Would also be nice to rip audio books (borrowed from the library) to listen to while working or commuting.
I wish I had this unit when I was still taking classes. I could have easily gotten lecture audio and listened to them again while studying.
Posted by johnvu at August 1, 2003 06:00 PM