mp3 player
About 8 years ago I bought a Creative Jukebox 3 off ebay for about £50. Since then I've managed to break the screen, the headphone socket and the hard drive, all of which I replaced myself with a little screwdriver and spare parts also obtained inexpensively from ebay. It's an absolute genius piece of kit in that it looks like a discman (and so no-one will ever steal it) and will probably still be working in another 8 years.

Conversely, my friends seem to go through ipods like tissues.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 16:37, 3 replies)

I agree!
I have the Jukebox 2 and it's a great music library.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 16:54, closed)

I still have an original Creative DAP Jukebox (aka Nomad on the US market) kicking around somewhere, though upgraded to 30Gb (I think the original drive was 6.)

It suffered from a horrendously long boot time, painfully slow USB 1.1 data transfers and specialised cranky software to upload content from the PC (iTunes anyone?) On the plus side, once fired up, it was well featured, with proper cataloguing of albums/artists etc. from the ID3 tags, and it even played back VBR MP3s, when a lot of stuff at that time couldn't handle them.

It was a great piece of kit for its time.
( Horatio P Lemming, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 19:50, closed)

I've got a zen vision:m, about 5 years old now.
You would not believe the shit I've put it through. Must have fallen onto concrete at least 30 times, been soaked in water, everything. Still works fine.
( Zuowan, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 5:00, closed)