Archos 10gb MP3 Player 129.99 AR + 0.01 shipping! HOT??

[kitkit201]

My first hotdeal so please forgive me

Ripped from the technical barga ins site...

CompUSA.com has the Archos Jukebox Studio 10 MP3 Player & 10GB USB Hard Drive for a low $159.99 - $30 rebate = $129.99, 0.01 shipping. Item 298135

Does anyone know how well this unit is? I am thinking of ordering it.. rebate ends on the 25th of this month..

post if you know or have one of these.. peace

 

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[unclebud]

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[MWoody]

I have a 20gb recorder-type Archos. Got it for Christmas.

Good news: Solid case, nice screen, great player-computer interface (plug it in, Windows gives it a drive letter - no software required). Internal, rechargable battery lasts a long time.

Bad news: Buggy, craptacular firmware. Poor design choices, inexplicable errors you'd think a novice would catch, slow to respond. Haven't updated the official firmware in a ridiculously long while.

Best news: You don't have to use the official firmware! Check out http://rockbox.haxx.se/ for some of the best drivers around.

3 out of 5 stars with official firmware
5 out of 5 stars with RockBox

Now, as it was a gift, I can't comment on the price. But as for the unit itself, at least the version I've got, it's very nice. Note that it appears there are more differences between the recorder and non-recorder versions than just the neat-but-useless recording feature: I think the recorders might be more powerful, given the differences between the various RockBox versions on the various Archos boxes.

 

[chiwawa626]

The quality on the jukebox studio is kinda sorry...seems like a C rate engeneering student designed the thing...buttons are all shakey, the interface isnt great..but hey it functions to get its job done. I got it a while back from amazon with rebate/coupon for i belive 115 ...