Reviews Written by Art R

Dell Does It All !!!

Pros: Easy to Use

Cons: Slightly Bulkier Than Others

My daughter bought an I-Pod with her own money. It was such a hassle to get music to the I-Pod. I needed to install a firewire card and upgrade my OS to Windows 2000 (or XP). Then, it wasn't always reliable. It would get stuck in locked mode. It would freeze when music was being uploaded.

When I looked to get an mp3 player for myself, I wanted at least 20 Gig of space to hold all the music that I enjoy. Being a progressive rock fan, those smaller units would only be able to hold 2 to 8 songs that I like. Karn Evil 9 by Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Journey To The Center Of The Earth by Rick Wakeman would blow a whole 64 Meg player.

I also wanted to use USB 2 instead of Firewire so that I could use it on my Laptop which didn't have Firewire. I didn;t want to go through the expense of also buying a Firewire card for my Laptop.

Dell was the answer. My daughter, affectionately I hope, calls the Dell Digital Jukebox the "faux-pod". But, my unit is a workhorse. I take it to work. I use it as the stereo in any car I am driving. I am now contemplating using it as my home stereo exclusively. It is that easy to use. And with the capacity to hold over 300 hours worth of music, the only time I need to actually use a CD would be to rip it for use on the Dell DJ. My CDs will last a long time.

Thank you Dell. ...