Toshiba Gigabeat F41, First Perpendicular Storage MP3 Player

Toshiba

By: Grahm Skee on August 16, 2005 11:20 AM

Toshiba is now shipping the first perpendicular 1.8” drives to be used in HDD based MP3 players. It’s own Gigabeat F41 will be the first ever MP3 player to feature perpendicular storage, which will be a 40GB player but be lighter and smaller than previous 40GB players.

In addition to lighter and smaller players we will see 80GB based hard drive players in the near future when Toshiba ships the MK8007GAH which is the first 1.8” 80GB perpendicular storage drive.

[Press Release]

Comments

Nuno Sousa on August 16, 2005 5:19 PM

Why are u anti Apple ?
I think for myself and I think iPod is better than any mp3 player out there...
Why is it that success and quality cannot go together ??

James on August 16, 2005 6:56 PM

I had an ipod, it was great. I now have a 20gb gigabeat and it's much better. The cross scroller is better than the wheel and the display is superb. Software isn't great though.

Full review:
http://www.drunkfoundation.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=7091&hl=gigabeat

George drake on August 17, 2005 3:19 PM

who would want a 80 gb player, people choose the 6 gb ipod beacause they cant use up all da space.

yumi on August 17, 2005 4:24 PM

^you know, iPODs ARE NOT the only 5-6 GB mp3 player out there.

adam spence on September 16, 2005 1:27 AM

what about DRM issues? have they gone anti free downloads like apple?

sb445 on September 26, 2005 4:57 PM

I understand that many youngsters may not have much music but many of us have been buying CDs for almost two decades. I want 80GB (preferrably 100GB)

I have over 1000 CDs that are now in lossless format, hogging 250GB of hard drive space. I would love to encode them to no worse than a 192 kbps WMA.

I had a 60GB Zen, which I sold off when I realized that 128 kbps doesn't sound too great with monitor quality headphones.

sb445 on September 26, 2005 4:58 PM

I understand that many youngsters may not have much music but many of us have been buying CDs for almost two decades. I want 80GB (preferrably 100GB)

I have over 1000 CDs that are now in lossless format, hogging 250GB of hard drive space. I would love to encode them to no worse than a 192 kbps WMA.

I had a 60GB Zen, which I sold off when I realized that 128 kbps doesn't sound too great with monitor quality headphones.

rod weeks on February 10, 2006 9:00 AM

Apple sucks.
Computers or the insideous ipod. Apple just got on the bandwagon. Portable MP3 players have been around since about 1995-6 Remember the MP# man from Korea? It was 500 bucks for 64 or 128 meg. You newbies think it's all about ipod. No.
With many other machines, there is no DRM, so nobody's controlling what you listen to. The RIAA used to be about technology, now it's just a bunch of high priced lawyers trying to shore up the last gasp of an out moded production and distribution model. Just like home video recoders, which the movie industry once thought would "destroy" their industry, the RIAA is wrong.

krizzle on May 15, 2006 4:38 PM

This site alone promotes iPods. No other player has its own "let's rebel against it cos it's too popular" site. Such hipocracy.

yeop on July 16, 2006 3:10 AM

Mac people "think for themselves". Just like everybody else. I like the Sandisk Sansa e200 series personally.

Kyle on January 21, 2007 5:31 PM

www.rockbox.org
check it out

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