Price, mainly. I've also played with a co-worker's Rio Nitrus and I very much like it. The Carbon has the added advantge of behaving like an external drive when connected to a PC (unlike the Nitrus, which requires the Rio software to access). The funny part is that these things retail for $270 brand new and people have been buying them to rip out the 5GB compact flash card. The card sells for somethign in the $450 range. :-) Cheers, .....G Hoover wrote: >On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Gordon Campbell wrote: > > > >>Bought myself a Rio Carbon MP3 player .. :-D >> >> > >I've been trying to win an iPod lately, but haven't been lucky enough yet. >I think UofT must have a closet full of them and they offer them as >incentives to answer online surveys. > >What made you pick the Rio? > >Hoover > >------------------------------------------------------------ >Kingston Area Geocachers mailing list >//www.freelists.org/webpage/kag > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ Kingston Area Geocachers mailing list //www.freelists.org/webpage/kag