Hello guys!
Just received my DR1000S. It has charged for 3h, and now I've started to play a little bit with it. But... I have some questions about it, and would be glad if anyone around could help me to solve them.
Important issues (questions!):
1. When I connect it to my MacBook, should it mount the SD card? If it should, it is not doing it... if it "shouldn't by the specs.", hehe, in fact it "should for usability reasons"... I shouldn't need to take out the SD card everytime I need to transfer a file to it.
2. Depending of what it shows in the screen, it "marks" the screen and I get a "ghost" image of the last page. It's soft, but it is there...
Is this normal??
Not so important coments about it (but important anyway!):
3. I had never seen a DR1000S before. I confess that I decided to buy it after using a Sony for a while... Well, I must say that I am quite disappointed with the dithering algorithm implemented on this device!!! It is usable, but I expected to have at least the same kind of quality I saw in the Sony... And this, specially considering the DR1000S price level and its intended audience (B2B, or in other words, editors, publishers, etc., or am I wrong?).
4. The form factor... fells just... cheap.
Come on... at this price level? iRex guys, please, seriously consider a better design for the next version of this device... Take a look at an iPhone... and... HIRE A GOOD INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER
(i am not one).
However, I must say that I am happy with my device, because its software is open, now I do have decent "screen" size for reading scientific papers and mainly because I do have acess to thousands of scientific eBooks through my University... ok, and also because after spending all this money, I need to tell myself that I am happy for psychological reasons
But I fell that this device could be much better if iRex team had spent a little bit more time on the drawing board...
PS: Still cannot speak a lot about the GUI, but I've noticed that some things are a little bit awkward.