Not only do the batteries of digital devices often last longer than those of portable CD players, but most MP3 players hold many more hours of content than a single CD, meaning you don't have to worry about not being able to hear the end of a story because you left the next disk at home.
LaCie's Ethernet Disk Mini Home Edition, a media server that is about the size of a hardcover detective novel, offers 500 gigabytes of data storage for $199, not much more than the cost of most stand-alone hard drives of the same size.
LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini Home Edition 500GB NAS Hard Drive ($99.99).
Whether you came up in the console era and swapped cartridges like a maniac at lunchtime, or copied floppy disks at home and prayed they would work, try lots of free-to-play games on Facebook, or buy lots of cheap apps, chances are that you've played many cheap or free games.
In the case of Monica Lewinsky, they were recovered from the hard disk of a home computer.
Expected to hit retail stores this week for under $800 total, the A135 comes with some impressive features like a dual-core 1.73GHz Intel Core Duo T2060 CPU, 1GB of RAM (bravo Toshiba!), DVD burner, 120GB hard disk, and Vista Home Premium to boot.
"It all depends what you want to do," says Briss. "If all you want to do is burn a few disks on your home stereo, buy a stand-alone, grab a CD and record your track.
But his fourth surgery to repair ruptured disks sent him home to DeFuniak Springs, Fla.
An injury two years ago — herniated disks — kept him home from work for more than 10 months, he said, and though he received disability checks, he lost the income from his second job as a bartender.
"I can use it to take an opinion home on disk and work on it myself.
