Anyone have one of these?

Nixon · Post by **Nixon** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:22 pm

http://www.archos.com/products/gen_5/ar ... index.html

Or one in the similar range?

Villa · Post by **Villa** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:51 pm

That looks nice.
I'd be a bit worried about it being an instant thief magnet though.

Nixon · Post by **Nixon** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 12:00 am

My girlfriend has one - they seem pretty smart...but it feels like a bit of a con. I admit, I haven't had a chance to look at it properly, but it looks like we need to purchase software to use some of features - which seems crazy.

Music is fine, but it would be nice if we could view videos and websites etc freely....

Will have to have a closer look tomorrow.

Lady Redname · Post by **Lady Redname** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:10 am

id be more tempted to try and get yourself a highend smart phone

or even an ipod touch, its smaller screen but has 90% of the same features

and how often will you really be streaming stuff from your pc to watch on it? assuming your in wifi range wont it be easier to just watch it on your pc/tv 90% of the time

Mercury · Post by **Mercury** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:03 am

those kinda things, are great for long commutes, regular train journeys etc. outside of that i struggle to find a use?

Nixon · Post by **Nixon** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:24 am

Slamer I'm not buying one - we already have one.

I agree with what your saying about wifi, generally wouldn't be streaming to watch straight off, but that's not really why she has it.

She will use it at work, as she often has an hour or two of doing nothing because of the nature of her job..she does enough travel and such as well. Handy for her when she's at the gym as well. Additionally it acts a mini portable hard-drive as she can download films at mine etc store them there and watch them at friends houses.

Just seems like a pain in the ass that in order to watch mp4's etc, it requires you to purchase additional software - all be it a one off £15.

As theres videos on it, I'm sure I'll be able to convert anything I download to the same format, fine for me to do, but her......