Although the severe line noise problem and speaker pop are still problems, my main complaint these days is the poor user interface.

They've admitted they aren't UI people - what command-line UNIX person is? - so why not solicit help from the community to hopefully correct it?

Someone posted what I considered to be a vast improvement on the UI a while back. Vertical menus, for example, would be much, much better.

Thankfully these are all software issues and can be dealt with easier than hardware problems, all of which seem to have been corrected in the Mark 2 unit.