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Summary: ARCHOS JUKEBOX IS A HIT
Review: UNIT IS VERY GOOD FOR THE PRICE. EASY TO NAVIGATE. EASY TO TRANSFER FILES. BAD IS THE HEADPHONES=THEIR JUNK AS YOU WILL HAVE TO GET A GOOD PAIR. ALSO THE BATTERY LIFE IS BAD LIKE THEY LAST ONLY 2 HOURS. THEN YOU HAVE TO WAIT 6 TO RECHARGE=THATS [fluff]. ALL ELSE IS GREAT. BUY ONE. I GOT MINE FOR [money amount] TOTAL PRICE ON CLEARENCE . ITS NOT WORTH ANY MORE THAN THAT.GREAT DEAL FOR [the price]
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Summary: Change your Jukebox to a RockBox
Review: This is great starter for any geek. By it's self the machine is good, with new Firmware it is very good. Go to http://rockbox.haxx.se/ and check out this site before you buy. @ $is almost as good as an iPod.
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Summary: Hard Drive DOA
Review: This is my second Archos mp3 player. This first one met an untimely death, this one arrived at my home under great expectations..but the Hd was inoperative and I had to send it back. My experience has been very good, when the player actually works.
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Summary: Portability and memory, you can't go wrong!
Review: In a market where RIO 128MB MP3 players can still be priced above $..., this product is a steal. You can even replace the firmware with rockbox, a 3rd party software that speeds up your jukebox and even adds games! The battery life is 6+ hours, it can easily be charged via DC adapter, it's small, and (once you've mastered the included musicmatch software), converting all of your CD's is easy!
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Summary: It [is bad]
Review: This product [is bad]. It's fragile. I downloaded the latest firmware and after a day, it says Ic 2 Error when I turned it on. Try to get in contact with the tech support. Got in touch with the answering machine saying they would call back. What kind of tech support is this? And after all, the device [is bad]. It's a cheap kind. Looks like its only good for portable hard drive storage. If you are for that, well.... suit yourself.
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Summary: Unreliable
Review: I've had this product form about 8 months now and I have to say it is completely unreliable. I have trouble sending music to it and constantly get a message about it not being able to connect, despite having updated drivers and everything. Now it won't turn on half the time despite being fully charged. Just today I was charging it and it finally turned on again, but now the whole screen is lit up and it won't turn off now. I sacrificed the weight so I can get one that holds a lot of songs, which it does, but it just doens't work well. Let's see if I can actually get them to respond and fix it.
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Summary: Very Dissatisfied
Review: I bought this product as a gift for my wife. The instructions are quite unsatisfactory and it required a lot of guess work to get it up and running. However although the file transfer procedure was relatively simple the Sound output was very very dissapointing. I hardly could hear MP3's which normally are very audible even at mid level volumes in other players. I would definitely advise against it.
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Summary: Archos products ROCK and beat Apples high prices
Review: The Archos line of products ROCK, they even won the BEST PRODUCT of the 2003 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The 10GB Studio is the base line product for Archos... a simple disk based MP3 player that also allows the user to use it as a portable Hard Disk for ANY PC files in addition to playing MP3 files. These are very rugged, I have dropped mine a few times and use it almost daily for activities like skiing and biking with no problems at all. I even connect it to my car stero with a simple adapter to bring my music collection on the road... and were talking 1000's of songs! Sure the Apple products look better and are a bit smaller but why pay close to [more]for an iTunes when you get this for [less] after rebate?? Use your head.
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Summary: Great Buy!
Review: I picked one of these up around last Christmas and have a good eight months of use under my belt. There are some things I like very much about it (most things) and some that could be improved. All in all, it is a great player for the money and I would recommend that anyone with a need for space for lots of portable music pick one up. It is no Ipod. This is not entirely a bad thing. It is better in some ways. For instance, the Archos lets you use the player as a true portable hard disk drive. 10 Gb that fits in your pocket is really pretty neat. It is larger than the Ipod and has a kind of "clunky" look to it. Still, it is portable and pretty light weight. It fits in my pocket (barely). I doubt that it would fit in the pocket of my jeans though. Battery life is awesome. I travel alot and have easly gotten about eight hours of tunes from one charge. I hear that you can get higher rated batters and push it to 10 or more hours. Maybe when these bateries fail. The interface is very easy to use. Copying songs is as easy as dragging and dropping files to a directory. I have no problems finding the tunes I want. If you spend the time organizing your mp3s ahead of time, you will never be but a few clicks from any song. I have the 10 GB version - more than enough space for me. My brother in law has over 40 GB of tune on his, he got a larger hard drive put in. The USB interface is pretty slow. I wish it was faster. It probably takes five seconds or more to copy one song. Large transfers can take quite a while. The enclosed headphones are pretty cheap, you will do much better with others. Once you have even modestly good headphones, you will enjoy excellent sound. For the price, this thing is great. It has all of the most important things - Portability, battery life, large storage size, and great sound. Some compromises must be made, but you can't do better for the money.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: Support is difficult - we haven't been able to use ours this summer because it won't charge. Support says they'll get back within 48 hours and we don't hear anything. I teach and train on computers - I know manuals can be a joke, this one is the worst. Instructions don't match unit.
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