> And yet I get sh*t from you and to some extent Rob for my choice

It wasn't my intention to be impolite in any way. We tend to be very honest about competitors products - what impresses us, what's crap and so forth.

The MP Shuttle wasn't top of my Christmas list I have to admit, however we did spend a lot of time defending the rather tasty Personal Jukebox 100 in the mp3.com Hardware Discussion forum.