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2009-01-14
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Well, my current iPod is about kick the bucket within a short time; so I've been considering my options.
I was debating on a 16 gig touch (~$300), 32 gig touch (~$400) or a 80 gig classic (~$250ish). The 8 gig is just way too little; it's out of the question. My current 30 gig is nearly full of music alone - I love my music
Then I found out about the n8x0 series, and my jaw dropped. As an advid fan of computers/computer systems, and a current undergrad univeristy student in Computer Science the tablet is really appealing. In addition, I truely do not like apple. I love the iPods; Apple as a company, not so much. The open source aspect of the tablet is definately a plus. And of course with the n800, 2x removable flash memory is just beyond comprehensible for me :P
I commute approximately 3 or more hours per day for school, which brings up the question of battery life. The nokia site advertises 3.5 hours browsing battery life. Using this thing as a more or less strictly music player, what could I expect in terms of battery time? Obviously I'd be using it plenty more than just music in reality, I'm just concerned it may not make it even using it soley for music.
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Main question: How would the n800 function as a media player alternative? Keeping in mind I commute about ~3 hours or more in a day. My main concern is battery life.
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2009-01-14
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2009-01-14
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I'd strongly recommend picking up an N800. The N810 is in some ways (transflective screen, slide-out keyboard) a step up, and in some ways (no FM tuner, d-pad concealed on slider, 1x fixed 2GB + 1x miniSD instead of 2x SD) a step down; internals (CPU, etc.) are practically identical, though. The N800 is cheaper, and is not likely to drop much lower for waiting.
But Nokia is releasing the successor (code name RX-51, should be a dramatic improvement: next-generation processor, 3d acceleration, 3G data connectivity, probably TV-out, and more.) sometime the first half of this year, so if you find the N800 doesn't cut it, you can either pick up an N810 dirt cheap this summer, or shell out whatever they want for the new tablet.
how can you turn down weekend bash scripting, vim, nethack, javascript, etc. along with a fully functional web browser with flash?
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2009-01-14
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2009-01-14
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2009-01-14
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2009-01-14
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If you're interested in watching video, you need to get mplayer for the tablet and make sure you transcode your videos to XVID 400x240, 600-800 kbps (depending on the amount of action -- the more high-action scenes, the lower you should set the bitrate). For the best quality, I recommend doing a two-pass encode. I suggest resizing the video to 240 height, and then cropping the width to 400. The results will be spectacular and will have everyone in the train looking over your shoulder.
tablet-encode -2 -p mplayer some_input_video_or_dvd /media/disk0/Video/rip.avi
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I was debating on a 16 gig touch (~$300), 32 gig touch (~$400) or a 80 gig classic (~$250ish). The 8 gig is just way too little; it's out of the question. My current 30 gig is nearly full of music alone - I love my music
Then I found out about the n8x0 series, and my jaw dropped. As an advid fan of computers/computer systems, and a current undergrad univeristy student in Computer Science the tablet is really appealing. In addition, I truely do not like apple. I love the iPods; Apple as a company, not so much. The open source aspect of the tablet is definately a plus. And of course with the n800, 2x removable flash memory is just beyond comprehensible for me :P
I commute approximately 3 or more hours per day for school, which brings up the question of battery life. The nokia site advertises 3.5 hours browsing battery life. Using this thing as a more or less strictly music player, what could I expect in terms of battery time? Obviously I'd be using it plenty more than just music in reality, I'm just concerned it may not make it even using it soley for music.
TL;DR
Main question: How would the n800 function as a media player alternative? Keeping in mind I commute about ~3 hours or more in a day. My main concern is battery life.