Have a pic:
Clicking on the pic takes you to the Pricerunner information page.
It's true that it's not one of those monster hard drive models, it hasn't even got an alphanumeric display, but it does have a SDCard slot and some nice presets. It also connects to the PC as a portable hard drive and doesn't require any proprietary software, or specific drivers like other players do, so what I have, potentially, is not just a music player, but a portable, bootable hard drive - which will come in very handy in the future.
To get more than two albums on there, I have to re-encode the music down to 64kbps, which is easy with Musicmatch Jukebox that came with the player, and if I encode the tracks using mp3PRO, I can't really tell the difference.
At the end of the day it's a bog standard upgrade from the cassette and CD walkmans I've had up to now, necessary because we don't have a tape recorder in the house for me to make compilation tapes up, and I'm damned if I'm ripping loads of cd's every time I want to listen to something on a bulky, battery guzzling CD walkman.
Fact is, the vast majority of my music collection is on the PC and it's so startlingly easy to plug the player in and transfer the three or four hours of music I want that day that I don't see any particular need to fork out hundreds of pounds on an eminently nickable fashion accessory that would actually restrict what I could do with it *cough* iPod *cough*
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Speaking of things Apple, I popped into the Apple store in the Bullring yesterday and had a play with a nice G5 attached to a 30" widescreen plasma monitor.
Want one!
