Dell today took the wraps off a 30-gigabyte Dell DJ music player that sells for $299. “Dell said the titanium-encased device can hold up to 15,000 songs and works with online music services such as those from Napster Inc.and Musicmatch,” Rex Crum reports for CBS MarketWatch. “Gretchen Miller, Dell’s director of mobile product marketing, said the company considers its music players part of ‘how we deliver a set of personal entertainment’ to customers who want to take advantage of subscription music services. In early February, Napster debuted its Napster To Go service, which allows for unlimited song downloads for customers that pay a monthly fee of $14.95.”
“Dell released the new DJ a day after Apple Computer unveiled a 30-gigabyte version of its iPod photo player, which can hold up to 7,500 songs or 25,000 digital pictures,” Crum reports. “Apple claims to have sold more than 10 million iPods to date. Dell doesn’t break out individual product sales numbers.”
Full article here.
See the new Dell Digital Jukebox here.
“Dell doesn’t break out individual product sales numbers.”
i wonder why..
For $50 more and the peace of mind of using iTunes, I’d rather buy a 30GB iPod photo.
I’ve been waiting for the new Dell DJ! WOOHOO!
MDN Magic Word: STAY, As in STAY away from the Dell DJ!
They are just so ugly…gah
If it looks like a Dell, walks like a Dell, and smells like a Dell, it’s a Dell. Dell Jukebox will never be an iPod. I can just imagine the embarassment of a teen carrying a Dell piece of crap while other teens are struttin the ultra cool iPod. You’ll never see the Dell Jukebox because people will be concealing them underneath their clothes to avoid humiliation. DELL = UNCOOL. PERIOD!!!
does it come with a firewire cable?
/obligatory
“Dell doesn’t break out individual product sales numbers.”
So, they combine it with what? All the MP3 players that they have or do they go as far as combining with their PC units?
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Stop being such a wuss just because you didn’t managed to get first post here Neo!
Anyway, just took a look at the new jukebox and I have to admit that it does look a whole lot better than the old version. Too bad its still has the same crappy slide bars n that stupid scrool wheel.
Won’t be caught dead with a piece of crap from Hell anyway, so no loss.
“Dell said the titanium-encased device can hold up to 15,000 songs…”
Yeah, if you don’t care if they sound like ass.
Magic word: “real”, as in, “Get real.”
If the iPod didn’t exist and I’d have to choose some other MP3 Player, it would be Gateway’s offering over Dell’s no question.
Link.
Dell does it again. Just a day after a new crop of iPods and the Dell DJ is back on top again.
You Mac zealots are pathetic.
I’ve been needing a new Pepsi coaster/brick if someone breaks into my house.
From their page:
“…up to 15,000 songs”
However: “Assumes audio format is 64kbps WMA encoding with average song length of 4 min.”
Bwahaha!
“Dell said the titanium-encased device can hold up to 15,000 songs…”
Actually, if you encode the songs at 28 kbps, you can probably load about 35,000 songs on it.
Dell doesn’t break down individual product numbers. If they did they would be embarraced by how the Apple iPod has kicked there butt.
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…just encode them at 16 kbps. No problem.
of a pile with a peanut in its head.
Ok, so let me get this straight. Dell’s new 30GB DJ is $50 cheaper than the 30GB iPod photo, but it lacks a color screen, lacks photo capabilities, is thicker and heavier, and gets less battery life than the iPod photo? Nice job Mikey, but I don’t think that thrilling combination of features (or lack thereof) will help sales of your DJs any at all…
“…up to 15,000 songs”
However: “Assumes audio format is 64kbps WMA encoding with average song length of 4 min.”
I found a song of exactly 4 minutes in my iTunes library (The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore, by PJ Harvey, it seemed appropriate) and converted it from 128kbps AAC to 64kbps AAC. It went from 4MB to 1.8MB. So a 30GB iPod could easily contain 15,000 songs if they were encoded at such a crappy rate. Kudos to Apple for not playing that underhanded game and quoting real-world song capacity.
“point”
Why is it still so damn ugly?
OH look now Dell just change their tag from $299 to $269. What a bottomfeeder
What did Arnold say when he uncovered the Predator…that’s what I hear when I see that Dell thing.
So they’ll add $600 to their bottom line from these.
One for Kevin, and one for Mikey.
Can anyone say, “Loser!”
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I wouldn’t use that to prop up my broken table leg, let alone be seen in public with it.