[saints]

Archos are slowly getting a very bad reputation for the lottery you enter when you buy one of their products. Their customer support is hopeless. Ive read people have had to get the better business bureau to intervene.
I bought a 504 160gb to replace my cowon a2 as the a2 has limitations on its hard drive. I find the quality of the picture the same on both, with the archos battery life sucking to half that of the cowon. Buying a replaceable battery is the only plus for Archos.
I didnt need to buy any of the plugins, but as SS says this and having to buy ac adapters for an expensive machine is ridiculous.
So far my 504 hasnt had any problems. maybe ive been lucky.
Archos firmware updates are very few and far in between, and once the next gen comes out they abandon the previous generation.
Id never buy another Archos product based on above.