Buy one if you can! (Creative Jukebox 10 GB)

Member Name: jiminuk

Product:	Creative Jukebox 10 GB
Date:	14/06/03 (125 review reads)
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Advantages: Capacity (especially with HDD upgrade), Price (especially 2nd hand)

Disadvantages: Supplied headphones (buy some you like!)

The Creative Jukebox (JB1) has been on the market for some time now, and has been superseded (in Creative's eyes) by the JB2 and JB3 both of which come with a few improvements. However, if you can get hold of one I'd recommend you do so and here's why:

- The price has dropped significantly to the point where the original 6Gb version can be bought new for just over £150; a friend just got a 2nd hand one for £110!

- All the JB1 driver updates, transfer and CD ripping software are available on line for free. The improved firmware makes the start-up time faster, lengthens the battery life during play, and allows the JB1 to be used as a data storage unit as well as a music play-back device.

- Upgrading the Hard disk storage is easy! My original 10Gb unit now has a 30Gb HDD, and is capable of holding about 600 CDs on it. The new disk drive cost me £80 (a Fujitsu MHS2030AT laptop 9.5mm HDD), and took me just under an hour to do the whole upgrade.

- The JB1, whichever way you look at it, is a highly portable, user friendly, well built MP3 and WMA player that will is capable of storing (with an upgrade) most people?s entire CD collection.

I've had my JB1 for a year now, and am still really pleased with it. What's more, I'm not bored with it yet. That, for people who know me, is a recommendation in itself!

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