Acidus wrote:
] These things are basically 20gig iPod Photos on crack.
]
] Basic Specs:
] -220 x 176 color screen (64k colors? maybe?)
] -20 gig hard drive
] -MP3 OGG and WMV playback
] -JPG/BMP/GIF Pictures
] -Reads TXT files! Ebooks anyone?
] -Xvid Video playback at 10fps (can hack up to 24fps)
] with new firmware
] -16 hours of battery life
] -Acts an external hard drive
] -USB On-the-go. Download pictures directly off your digital
] camera/devices (With firmware upgrade)
]
] Here is the steal! They are listed on Best Buy's website at
] $329.99. However most stores they will ring up at $266.99 or
] even $214.99. The Best Buy at Northlake (285 and Lavista)
] sells them at $214.99. The cool part is, Best Buy has to match
] prices, even their own! Simple ask them to check the
] availablity of the product at other stores, which will also
] show the price at the other stores. Jill and I went up to the
] store off Pleasant Hill (up 85, 3 exits outside 285) and it
] rang up $266. When we told them to check the Northlake store,
] they knock the price down.
]
] Supposedly, these are being discontinued. However all the
] stores we checked with were still receiving new shipments. The
] service lady that told us that kind of sucked, and seemed to
] be wrong.
]
] This is a great deal! Sure movie playbakc isn't great, but it
] wasn't even an originally planned feature! $214 for an
] external 20gig USB 2.0 HDD, with playback and

I came across this when I was doing research for an mp3 player for my brother's upcoming birthday. It really is a good deal. This is actually the one we chose to get him.