I picked up a Microsoft Zune yesterday.  I was growing really sick of the radio on the way home from the office, decided I finally needed a mp3 player. 

So I looked at an ipod but I neither want to pay 99 cents a song nor do I want to use torrents or illegal file sharing services.  I "kinda" looked at some of the playforsure players, but not too seriously.  I wanted the zune all along, I spent two weeks deliberating the decision, now I have it.

Its black with dark neon blue highlights, it looks slick.  Unlimited music for 15 bucks a month, which for me, is a good deal.  It has 30GB, I've only filled a gig or so so far.  It has a huge screen, which since I really like music videos I hope to make some use of later on.  And last night I hacked my registry so I can use it like a portable hard drive through "my computer". 

I need gadgets to go along with it, some sort of way to make it interface with my car stereo (and no, not the radio gadget, we had problems in California because of how congested their radio stations are).  I'll probably use the tape deck adapter, barring if I can figure out how to splice a plug into my lexus stereo somehow.

Overall, I'm happy, it works, the screen is pretty and large, and I'm testing the battery life today.  The selling factor for me was my voracious consumption of new music and the unlimited music for 15 a month, I can see that people who listen to the same music all the time probably would prefer the ipod or whatever.

I'll post again after my battery test is done. :)