You are not alone... I completely agree with you on the empeg hardware and software - I refuse to go back to burning my own CDRs, or to (gack!) listen to the radio.

I dunno... I think you may be going overboard. Yes, there is nothing on the market today to match or even approach the capabilities of our beloved empegs... but the operative word here is today.

I mean, just think: you had an opportunity to stock up on Commodore 64 computers before they stopped being made... but with 20/20 hindsight, that might not have been such a good thing to do.

I am quite confident that by the time my empeg fails, there will be replacement systems on the market (whether from Sonic Blue, or Sony, or Panasonic, or maybe even Altman Enterprises LLC) that will make us wonder how we ever put up with those primitive Linux boxes in our cars.

Time will tell, I guess...

tanstaafl.

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