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I finally fliped over the Flip. I got it this past (Oct 3) Wed and looked forward to using it on my bike ride on Thur. Thur. morning, riding down the San Gabriel River Bike Trail towards Pacific Coast Hwy, I took the Flip from my jersey pocket (that's handy, I thought), managed to turn the Flip on and, as I rode along, I shot several seconds, commenting as I rode and shot. I turned the Flip off, and put it back in my jersey. I did that several more times. By now I'm really impressed. It is small enough to fit in my riding jersey, and it comes to hand real smooth. At around 10 miles (Sunset Beach, if you're familiar with the area), I eagerly checked my first production. Nothing. Huh. So I pressed the on button a couple of times, and finally saw, "Ready" (couldn't see that riding and shooting). I jabbed the start button (or run) several times, until finally , the Flip started working. Well, that seemed to be the way it worked. I would turn it on, hit the run button after "Ready" came up, but nothing would happen. Nor would it stop when I pushed that little red button. I would have to shut it off. Well, that's the bad news. The good is that it worked absolutely seamlessly with my Dual Core iMac. It's own software installed cleanly. The clips I was able to shoot I was able to bring into iMovie. But, as we well know, a product which works sometimes is pretty worthless, over-riding any of the pluses. Sorry Flip... Product is returned to Amazon.