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07 May 2011
Great portable media center, horrible tablet.
3 of 4 found this helpful The Archos 70 250gb is a mixed bag of awesomeness and failure. If you try to compare this tablet to others, you'll find that it is really limited. Only 256mb of ram and a lack of support for Honeycomb combined with the fact that the harddrive slows down load times excessively, it really can't compare to the Xoom or iPad. However, it really wasn't designed to compete with those tablets. What it's designed to do is be a mobile media center, much like a ipod with a large screen that plays HD video. And in this respect, it succeeds.
With a 250gb harddrive, enough processing power to play 720p video, an HDMI output and the ability to use an android cell phone as a remote control for it, it is perfect for taking HD movies with you and watching them on the device or on an HDTV. The speakers aren't Boss quality or anything, but they're way better than the average cellphone speaker. The screensize is great because it can still fit in a pocket (if you wear baggy pants like I do), but you have lots of room for webpages, video, and games.
So that pretty much covers what is awesome about this tablet, now for what isn't so great. It features bluetooth 3g tethering to allow you to access the internet anywhere by sharing your cellphone's data connection via bluetooth. This feature is nearly impossible to set up (in fact on some phones it is impossible). While it's nice of them to include it for the people who really want to use this as a mobile internet tablet, it's just really impractical (anytime I want to use that feature I have to pull out my phone, disable wifi, enable tethering, pull out my tablet, enable tethering... you can't just leave it running all the time because it murders the battery).
Next bad thing, the harddrive. While the size of the harddrive is a great thing for this kind of device (being geared towards media use) the explicit lack of any flash memory on the device means that all apps and all files must be loaded off the harddrive, which is sloooooow. It doesn't help that Archos removed the microSD card slot so you can't even try to run apps off of a class 10 SD card to speed it up. The lack of RAM also makes it so that the device cannot have as many apps preloaded and must load apps off the harddrive more often then necessary. This, once again, does not help loading times.
Also the software isn't so great. I love Android, but Archos' implementation is buggy sometimes. For instance, my Archos will randomly enter a reboot loop when I'm not even using it. Just sitting on the desk it'll reboot it's self over and over and over. Have to hold down the power button to force it off then turn it back on to make it stop. It also likes to frequently "update media library" at which point you may as well just put it down and let it finish 'cause it's useless while it's doing that (still works, it's just ungodly slow). Good news about the updating media library function is that if you haven't added any new music or videos it finishes almost instantly... if you did just add some though you might want to put the tablet away and find something else to do.
So there you have it. Lots and lots of cons, but it is one of the cheaper tablets around and DEFINITELY has the most storage out of any of them. So depending on your uses it could be great. With a 250gb harddrive and the 7-inch screen it's unparalleled as a portable media center, but I wouldn't want to use it as the PC replacement that most tablets are trying to be.
24 August 2010
Great device for low-budget recording.
1 of 1 found this helpful The Line 6 Toneport KB37 is designed to be a high-quality recording interface that's easy to use and low priced. Since it also includes a built in MIDI controller, it makes it very simple to program a drum track, record a synth track, and then record your vocals, guitar and bass.
The first great thing about the Toneport KB37 is that it's cheaper than the Pod Studio KB37. They are both the exact same device with only 2 minor differences. The first is that the Toneport is black with red accents while the Pod Studio version is all black. The second is that the Pod Studio includes the FX Junkie Modeling Kit which only costs $25 if you want to add it to the Toneport. Obviously the Toneport is no longer sold by Line 6, but you can find the Toneport here on ebay at a much lower price than the Pod Studio.
The next great thing is the versatility. Capturing vocals, bass, and guitar are all excellent, but if you are going for low-budget recording your biggest issue is capturing the drums. Since this device has a MIDI interface, all you have to do is get yourself a good drum programming application and record the MIDI input to get yourself an amazing drum track without worrying about all the hassles that go with drum recording (I personally am using Propellerhead Reason with the Drum Kits 2.0 refill, which is by far the best MIDI drum kit solution you can get).
And speaking of Propellerhead, this device seems almost like it was built for Propellerhead's programs Record and Reason. Just one device and you can do everything you could possibly need to in both applications (recording, adding virtual amplifiers, recording MIDI, etc.). Record even recognizes all your Pod presets and lets you put them in the Line 6 amps that are built into Record.
Now for things I don't like. I don't like the levels gauges. They can be programmed to either show input levels, outputs levels, or pretty much anything else you can think of, but they both must be programed to do the same thing. You can't have one show input levels and the other show output levels. Instead the left one shows the left channel levels and the right shows the right channel levels. Now that could be useful in some situations, but honestly you're usually only recording one channel at a time so it makes sense to be able to set it so that you can see input and output levels for that single channel. But alas, it does not allow you to.
It's also worth noting for those wondering about it, you can only record two channels at a time. I don't personally mind that since I usually only do one at a time anyway, but if you were hoping to hook up 5 mics to the various inputs and record either a drum set or an entire band at once then you're out of luck here.
Honestly though it's a very very good device. The pros dramatically outweigh the cons, especially when you consider how easy it is to use and the small amount of room it takes up compared to having a MIDI controller, a recording interface, and all the amps and cabinets that Pod Farm allows you to use virtually. For the poor musician who can't afford studio time this and Propellerhead Record are everything you need (add Reason and Drum Kits 2.0 if you want awesome drums too).