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4.0 stars
"Three years and counting"
Pros: Lots of storage and great sound quality
Cons: Bulkiness compared to newer models, disk sometimes freezes or glitches out
Summary: Being an early adopter, I rushed out to get the Creative Nomad 3 back in November 2002. Last summer, the disk was damaged when my cat knocked the player off a desk, but it's given me no serious problems otherwise. I love the terrific sound quality and enormous storage capacity -- amazing for the price, even three years ago. I won't say that there haven't been some minor problems...every once in a while, the disk just shuts down and I have to take the batteries out and switch them around to restart it. (On the plus side, the lithium batteries have a very long life -- nearly 22 hours, I think.) Also, the on/off button has a bad habit of spontaneously turning on. Still, whenever I thinkabout switching to an IPod or something of that ilk, I always end up coming back to my trusty old Nomad 3. Yes, it's as clunky as an old-school CD player (an airport security guy once asked me to open it!), but I have a huge chunk of my music library on it. And now that JHymn has nicely provided software for turning ITunes M4Ps into MP3s, I can play ITunes downloads on the Nomad 3. All in all, I'm happy with the player and will not be purchasing anything else -- unless, of course, Marley knocks the Nomad 3 off my desk again.
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