I respect your opinion. I like my creative. its the 40gig model and it cost me a fraction of the price of an ipod. I love it and it has awesome sound quality. If I had the money to go out and buy a 40gig ipod then I probably would but I am poor I figure if creative is good enough to make my sound card they are good enough to make my mp3 player. I haven't had any problems with it and I think it sounds excellent.