January 4, 2003

Do-it-all handheld
The Archos Jukebox Multimedia is a complete entertainment centre, which combines an MP3 music player and recorder, portable USB hard drive, photo album and DivX (CIF) video player into a unique handheld device. Its 20GB hard drive is able to hold up to 5000 MP3 songs, 60,000 photos, 20 to 100 hours of videos, or a combination of all three- and can serve as a back up hard drive for personal data as well! The images and movies are displayed in a 3.8 cm LCD screen. Built-in rechargeable Li-ion Batteries offer up to 8-10 hours of MP3 playback, or up to 5 hours of MPEG4 playback The mulimedia camera module included provides a quick and elegant solution for all your digital photography needs. It converts your Jukebox Multimedia unit into a 1.3 MegaPixel digital camera and MPEG4 camcorder!
Price: $380
More info: www.archos.com/

Mini-PC

With the dimension 15x14x6 cm, the Cappuccino TX3 Mini-PC is a full functional portable storage solution for hours of digital video. It is built on Intel 815 motherboard, 1.2Ghz Pentium 3 processor with 512MB 144-pin PC133 RAM and a 30GB internal hard drive, internal 56K V.90 modem and 24x CD-ROM with an option for 8x DVD-ROM, or 8x/8x/24x/8x DVD/CD-RW combo drive. Besides, built-in 10/100 base-T ethernet (RJ45), it also has support for FireWire for high-bandwidth peripherals. It has four expansion ports for speedy data transfer. The included Infrared port (IrDA) is designed at front panel allows users to enjoy instant short range point-to-point data transmission without moving the device.
Price: $950
More info: www.saintsong.com.tw/