On 12/13/06, bklaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Must. Have. Knob.
I played with it at their open house last week, didn't like it as much as I thought I would. The big thing is that I frequently do more than one thing at once -- so I was talking with Jez and playing with the knob, and when I'd hit the end of a list it would make this nasty "YOU'RE GONNA BREAK IT" grind. Keep in mind that some lists are like two or three items long... To borrow from HHGTG, "Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow." So obviously I started being more delicate, but the fact is there's just not a lot of room in my life for devices that can't take their fair share of abuse. The knob reminds me of my Macbook -- sexy looking in the showroom, but kind of annoying to actually use, and way overly delicate. The Macbook (two months old, broken DVD, scratched case, flaky wireless, flaky camera) gathers dust most of the time while my ugly black Thinkpad (one year old, some case scratches where I took off the badges) gets used all day every day. Squeezeboxes are not built for being handled like laptops are supposed to be... that would change with a built-in knob. The whole design would need to get tougher, in case it gets knocked over. Remember the guy whose VFD broke when he dropped it? -- "I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, So across the Western ocean I must wander" -- traditional _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
