[Empeg-general] Re: Neo 35 User-Considering Buying EMPEG-NEWBIE

[justinlarsen@empegbbs-noreply.merlins.org]

yes, yes, yes, and better. the random play in the current beta isnt the best, but its still way better than the neos random, the deck is a standard din so it will fit in the escort slot better than your neo. thanks to some good work from the people on the forum some of the visuals are customizable. upgrading is easier on a windows system than on a linux system, becuase the software sadly enough is built to run on a windows system, but if u do ever try and switch there has been another great person on the forum who has made a program called jemplode that anyone can use on any system that supports java. It was discontinued becuase of marketing, the just coulnt compete with other companys becuase they had a way higher volume of the market share, and therefor sonicblue gave up, and is now from what i heard only going to do OEM devices, such as a rio stock in new cars ect. if your wallets concering you u may be better off getting a 10gig then upgrading the drives. i know www.carplayer.com still has some and there prices go up almost every week, a regular laptop ide cable will work just fine.. now the unit has room for 2 ide laptop drives, much better than the neo's 3.5 drive that are very weak to shock. The radio is cake to install if you can get one, its a very hard thing to find at a decent price at the moment, there has been word of another batch of them comming out, but im not holding my breathe. i hope i answered everything for you, and good luck with it