I bought the Archos Gmini at Circuit City the other day, and now I've got a trip to Comp USA to take back my IRIVER. First, the Archos was $239>IRIVER &375..(the 125 I'll get back goes in the UA-5 fund).... It has a nicer button lay out, a keyboard option to name the file without a comp, and you can delete from the unit. The plug in attachment fits Snug, not chance of it falling out; the recording software is still free at ARCHOS.com, and I easyly insatlled it and the newest OS.... It has a viasable left and right meter readings, prob. crappy, but... and the 3 times I've let it just go, I stopped it at 3hrs, 4hrs 20min and 2 hrs, I charged it between each run, but 4hrs + ain't bad. So maybe unlimited file size is true. Plus you can pause a recording and resart it... I t charged in approx 3 hrs, and I have a PDA power back-up that would work great... I recorded a band parctice with my AT953> Denecke AD-20>SPDIF ARCHOS and it sound fine...transfered a few 3hr shows from my comp to it and back in less then 3 min each....
All in all real nice...playing around with the other features and will see what other cool functions it has...