Some Rockbox updates
Some Rockbox updates
Posted Feb 2, 2006 16:21 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)In reply to: Some Rockbox updates by copsewood
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Except that these little boxes just don't have the grunt to autogenerate voice. My MP3 player is about the CPU equivalent of an Apple ][ (which is discouraging and, at the same time, absolutely stupefyingly amazing...)
Well, it's an Apple ][ with a 60 GB hard drive and an 11 hour battery life... That's the equivalent of 174762 floppies (5461 lbs). And you'd have to swap disks probably 8 times to play a single song.
Posted Feb 2, 2006 17:48 UTC (Thu)
by ncm (guest, #165)
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Posted Feb 3, 2006 0:58 UTC (Fri)
by bk (guest, #25617)
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The CPU in your MP3 player is likely to be 20 to 150 times as powerful as the one in your old Apple ][. Given the screen resolutions lately available, you could probably run a full-speed Apple ][ emulator, itself running a video game and mapping color video operations to the LCD, without causing your music to skip.Some Rockbox updates
Exactly. A typical DAP is roughly as powerful as a high end PC circa 1995-ish. 120 MHz CPU (with frequency throttling), 32 MB RAM plus tons of storage. The devices based on the PortalPlayer chip (iPod, iRiver H10) are even dual core!Some Rockbox updates