This is a good price on a good MP3 player. The audio quality is good and the size is about as big as 10 credit cards stacked in a pile. It has a blue light aroudn the entire border of the face that lights up when you push the buttons and then slowly fades away. This light also pulses when it recharges- it looks really futuristic like it is breathing. Definitely a high wow factor.

However, it's a hard-drive based player so it can skip. Users also complain about the volume being very sensitive, but the sensitivity can be easily adjusted in the setup menus.

Edited- I couldn't find the info on the audio processor so I removed it. I don't have time to research the issue now, but I didn't pull that out of thin air. And am not smokin crack- you got any?

"Creative makes the audio processor chips for the iPods, so sound quality is as good, if not better than iPods."

WTF??? Someone's smoking the crack pipe here.

Last I heard, Creative Labs was trying to sue Apple for patent infringement of their menu system used on iPods. Why the hell would Apple use Creative's processor chips when they are suing Apple??

Apple iPods have traditionally used PortalPlayer chips; more recently they've been slated to use Samsung chips instead. Creative and Apple are competitors in this space, not buddies.

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