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I work at Circuit City so I love this tech stuff. Rios carbon is by far the best Mp3 on the market. As you already know it's sleeker and more stylish, has a better battery, better softwear, equalizer, 1 gig more than "I-flop". Great sound!! It's very easy to do, if fact there isn't much of a instruction manual just a fold out poster with the 6 steps to get started. You hear everyone say it is plug and play well it is. Plug it to USB, start rio manager, put in a cd (rio manager will read this cd and gather Artist, album title, track listing, it will identfiy genre, and even published date. So now that your cd is loaded and read, select the tracks you want to copy or select all if you want the whole cd. You have your selection, now copy tracks (this just takes it from the Cd and puts on your computer. Once it is on your computer select transfer. This will send it to the rio player. it took me about 2mins from putting a cd in and hearing from my carbon. i have 182 tracks (746mb used, 4769mb free) this includes and audible file "Bourne Ultimatium" which is a "Book on tape" 3:30hrs long. You get 2 free downloads from audible.com Why only 4 stars? 1) 90 day warranty? Lots of customers dont like extened warranties, but $50 (circuit city) covers you for 2 years and is cheaper then spending $200-400 on a new Mp3 Player. 2) The case-- Yes it is a tight fit, dont worry about it falling out- it wont. But couldn't Rio at least put a belt clip on this thing? 3) Scratches easily- already have a teeny-tiny one over my lcd. Spend an extra 5-10 bucks and get a pack of PDA screen protectors most likley you'll get a 2 year supply just cut and put it on the lcd, be carefull not to cover the mic (if you plan to us it) 4) non-replacable battery- the lith-ion battery should last 2-3 years. apples I-Flop will run you 99$ to change the battery and you most likely have to wait 4-6 weeks for it to come back, after thinking about the battery, i think in 2 years mp3 players will be so advanced that it will be worth it to buy a new one. Remember the first I-flops? now 3-4 years later apple has the minis, and 3rd generation I-Flops are out now, word is the new 60gig from apple will store and display video. My point is technology advances to fast to worry about a battery. Remember minis batt only last 8 hours compared to rios at 20 hrs, there is a 2:1 ratio. Charge minis 2 times for every charge of rios. I researched the rio carbon and I-flop. This cant be beat, i tell my customers to get the carbon over the mini. You should too. It's just better. The only reason i would tell customers to go with apple is if they were die hard for I-tunes. hope this helps---- Pete