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11-27-2003, 02:25 AM
Bizarro was an imperfect clone of Superman yet still pulled off the occasional superhero feat. So it is with the Dell DJ.
By Peter Lewis (http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,548314,00.html)
The evil scientist Lex Luthor used his duplicator ray to try to clone Superman, but something went terribly wrong. The result was Bizarro, a good-natured but ugly and backward version of the Man of Steel. Bizarro was the antithesis of cool; his home planet, Htrae, was square.
When Bizarro had good news to announce, he would say, "This am terrible!"
Which leads us into a discussion of Dell's new Bizarro version of Apple's iPod, called the Dell Digital Jukebox Music Player, or Dell DJ for short. Coming from the square world of Dell instead of the hip world of Apple, it's bigger, heavier, and clunkier than Apple's sleek, suave, elegant iPod, which arrived on the scene two years ago and quickly became the most popular portable digital music player on our home planet, Earth. Even worse, the Musicmatch-backed Dell Music Store is the clumsy, Bizarro counterpart to Apple's brilliant iTunes Music Store.
So why am the Dell DJ terrible, in the good sense of the word?
Devoted fans of Bizarro know that although he was an imperfect clone of Superman, he was still capable of the occasional superhero feat. And so it is with the Dell DJ, which has a superheroic battery capable of lasting 16 hours between charges, or twice as long as the iPod's.
On top of that, the two models of the Dell DJ are both around $100 cheaper than their iPod equivalents. The 20-gigabyte DJ costs $299, vs. $399 for the 20GB iPod. Both hold up to 5,000 songs. The 15GB DJ is $249; Apple no longer makes a 15GB iPod, but the 10GB iPod costs $299, so the price differential holds true.
Read Entire Article (http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,548314,00.html)
By Peter Lewis (http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,548314,00.html)
The evil scientist Lex Luthor used his duplicator ray to try to clone Superman, but something went terribly wrong. The result was Bizarro, a good-natured but ugly and backward version of the Man of Steel. Bizarro was the antithesis of cool; his home planet, Htrae, was square.
When Bizarro had good news to announce, he would say, "This am terrible!"
Which leads us into a discussion of Dell's new Bizarro version of Apple's iPod, called the Dell Digital Jukebox Music Player, or Dell DJ for short. Coming from the square world of Dell instead of the hip world of Apple, it's bigger, heavier, and clunkier than Apple's sleek, suave, elegant iPod, which arrived on the scene two years ago and quickly became the most popular portable digital music player on our home planet, Earth. Even worse, the Musicmatch-backed Dell Music Store is the clumsy, Bizarro counterpart to Apple's brilliant iTunes Music Store.
So why am the Dell DJ terrible, in the good sense of the word?
Devoted fans of Bizarro know that although he was an imperfect clone of Superman, he was still capable of the occasional superhero feat. And so it is with the Dell DJ, which has a superheroic battery capable of lasting 16 hours between charges, or twice as long as the iPod's.
On top of that, the two models of the Dell DJ are both around $100 cheaper than their iPod equivalents. The 20-gigabyte DJ costs $299, vs. $399 for the 20GB iPod. Both hold up to 5,000 songs. The 15GB DJ is $249; Apple no longer makes a 15GB iPod, but the 10GB iPod costs $299, so the price differential holds true.
Read Entire Article (http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,548314,00.html)