What is the most powerful supported player for ROCKBOX?

[X86]

this is just my opinion of a powerful mp3 player.The Gigabeat series (all series),the sansa E200 series(excluding the R model,isn't supported yet),the Irivers(h1xx series,I dont know too much about this dap's),the Ipods wich I dislike(price,lack of radio in all models,lack of video playback in the nano's,not expandable memory,the battery last not much,if the battery dies someday,if it cant hold a charge you have to pay $99+tax and if want a warranty +59,too much expenses.I was thinking to add a list of what I dislike of Ipods but for now is too much show,if someday is going to talk about the ipod bad things I'm ready  
 

[soap]

this is just my opinion of a powerful mp3 player.The Gigabeat series (all series),the sansa E200 series(excluding the R model,isn't supported yet),

The Sansa is not but a hair more powerful than a Nano.

the Irivers(h1xx series,I dont know too much about this dap's),the Ipods wich I dislike(price,lack of radio in all models,lack of video playback in the nano's,not expandable memory,the battery last not much,if the battery dies someday,if it cant hold a charge you have to pay $99+tax and if want a warranty +59,too much expenses.

Paying more that $30 for an iPod battery is foolish.  (There are many available for cheaper still, with easy tools and easy instructions.)

I was thinking to add a list of what I dislike of Ipods but for now is too much show,if someday is going to talk about the ipod bad things I'm ready  

At least talk facts.

[cpnfantstk]

This is just a guess but I think a more powerful CPU would better be able to handle ROCKBOY games (gameboy color). Otherwise I would think alot of graphic stuttering would be going on.
True? Anyone try ROCKBOY with the Gigabeat F and whats the performance?

[Chronon]

It plays them well.  Even .gbc games have a snappy response.  I'm not sure if it's full speed exactly, but it must be close.  Also, the extra buttons on the side give you a better interface than the iPod, in my opinion.  (That's the only other target I have firsthand experience with.)

[Llorean]

It still doesn't play them as well as a real gameboy. They're full speed, but due to the emulator not really being 'perfect' (it falls far short) it's just still not as enjoyable of an experience.

[X86]

and remember that those are digital audio players,they can process another thing that audio with the proper programming,but that is going to give some troubles,but I think that those troubles would need to be minimal as the slow speed on sound and video on rockboy,the game boy and game boy color used  Zilog Z80 processors they have a clock speed of about 10 mhz and the digital audio players have more than that,afaik the minimum speed on the lowest end of the supported dap's of rockbox the lowest speed of processor is about 11 mhz, I think that is the code,but thought is a little hard to program to play video games,as the games have more complicated set of instructions,in our daps those will be slow

[gnu]

Six lines, one sentence - wow.
Anyway, it's much harder to emulate something than merely processing it (like an executable).

[rastaman01]

I recently bought an iPod Video 5.5G (80GB), but I was a lot happier with my iRiver H10 (20 GB)... it had everything that Rockbox can take advantage of (rockboy is awkward but works) however it only has a wimpy 20GB...

So I would strongly recommend an H10 is the HD size is not an issue (or if you think 200 bucks for a 60-80GB HD upgrade is nothing either!)

[soap]

I don't want to pick a fight but I think the H10 stinks.

The H10 is an iPod Mini's hardware plus a colour screen and radio.
While it has a removeable battery, said battery is near impossible to replace - and any lithium battery of that age is likely nearing death.  It alsio has the worst buttons of any supported player (opinion - but I doubt anyone who has used one disagrees).

The H10 is, without a doubt in my mind, everything which is bad about iPods x10 and none of the good features of iPods.  In short - it is the weakest target.
 

[ej0rge]

The 20gb H10 takes the same replacement li-po pack as an H120 or H320, but otherwise i agree completely. The H10 is awkward at best compared to many rockboxable DAPs.

For "power" I'd have to vote for the beast, but all that power cuts into it's battery life.

[AlexP]

I agree, the H10 is not good.  If you don't mind about no radio or recording, then the gigabeat F is excellent.  If you are most interested in recording, then the H100, and second to that the H300.

[karashata]

I have to agree that the H10 is definitely not the best possible Rockbox-able player, but I don't see what's wrong with it if all you're looking for is a fairly simple player to play music on. Then again, that's my opinion.

[Llorean]

In a thread where the topic is asking for the "most powerful supported player", I think it's safe to rule out that they're merely asking for just a fairly simple player to play music on.

There's not really any basis on which someone could claim the H10 is most powerful. There's basically nothing it does which someone couldn't claim another supported player does better, I think.