the Nomad Jukebox III got kickass product award in Maximum PC, the gave the Riot a rather crappy review (don't know if it had anything to do with advertising money and favoritism), but they actually gave the Nomad a 9, the Ipod a 8 and the riot got a 5.... the big gripes they had with the Riot were the fact that it only had a USB 1.1 uplink and they bashed the "rio DJ" feature... I'd have to see one and play with it to make up my mind on that.