The Olive OPUS Nº4 has quite a striking design and boasts either a 320GB or 1TB HDD, internal CD burner, 802.11g WiFi support and a 480 x 272 touchscreen display. The unit supports MP3, FLAC and WAV files, as well as having a bevy of output ports, the OPUS Nº4 also pairs up wirelessly with the MELODY Nº2, which allows you to access your content from the OPUS Nº4 and audio files stored on your PC’s hard drive or central server. The OPUS Nº4 and MELODY Nº2 will retail for US$1,799 and US$599, respectively. [Tech Digest]
Olive’s just released a Opus No3 with a 250GB hard drive that’s designed to hold 700 CDs worth of music in lossless capacity. The thing is iTunes compatible, rips CDs from disc to its hard drive, and is compatible with their Preload service (which you can send CDs to and they’ll rip and include your music on a new unit). The 305S with a 160GB hard drive will go for $1,199, and the 307S with 250GB hard drive will go for $1,699. Not a bad price for slim standalone units, but a PC can do the same job, albeit in a larger, uglier way.
