Question about the NW-A1000/3000 Walkman

[rocketor]

Hi.

For the past few weeks i was lookin for one of these sony walkmans, and i have a couple of questions.

1) is there anu diference between the 3000 and 1200 models (exept the capicity).

2) i heard that 3000 is 18 giga and not 20 as promised. what about the 1200 is that device 8 gigs or less.

3) Im thinking to get the walkman from japan (its cheaper than in my country). will the walkman come with english or japanes languege as main , and if it come with japanes will i be able to istall european firmware on it?

[b0ng0]

1) As far as i'm aware the only other differences are size (obviously the NW-1200 is smaller, but not a huge amount I would say) and also the quoted battery life is 10 hours less i.e. 20 hours, which would put it at around 12 hours in reality.

2) The actual size of disks is never the same as the amount you can fit on e.g. my HD on my PC was 250GB when I bought it, but it can actually only hold 242 GB of data (I don't know why this is exactly, its to do with the fact that a GB = 1024 MB or something).

3) Not too sure about this however, you can change the language on the player - like mine was bought in the UK but I could have it in japanese if I was clever enough to understand it .

As for the firmware, I think it's universal but i'm not too sure.

Hope this helps.

[chriswyatt]

Yeah, firmware is universal. Language will default to Japanese instead I think, but you can change it to English.

The device is really easy to use anyway so I doubt you'll need a manual.

[himd_anxiety]

The hard drive in the NW-A3000 is a 20 gig hard drive, but a portion of the memory is obviously required to run and manage the device. Therefore, users are left with 18. whatever gigs of usable space. In order to have 20 gigs of usable space, one would, in short, need a hard drive with more than 20 gigabytes in total capacity.

[kerfuffle]

I read somewhere that when they say a drive is 20GB, it's 'cause they measured it using 1GB = 1000MB (the market rate or something like that). But in reality, 1GB=1024MB, so the 20GB drive in reality is 18.6GB.

[Guest Stuge]

I read somewhere that when they say a drive is 20GB, it's 'cause they measured it using 1GB = 1000MB (the market rate or something like that). But in reality, 1GB=1024MB, so the 20GB drive in reality is 18.6GB.

You are right .

[Xufar]

You are right .

Exactly right.