Typical price: £185
What is it: MP3 player with 20GB hard drive
What we think: The wire-brushed aluminium chassis and integration with Windows are masterstrokes. However, a very fiddly control system and no support for the Mac means the Sleek falls tantalisingly short of greatness
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20 Sep 2005 in Reviews
So, you're in the market for a hard-drive MP3 player? Well, they might claim to be hard drives, but you're unlikely to catch any of them tearing themselves out of their Dixons packaging and rampaging about, smashing and terrifying the toasters in aisle three. There's a good reason for this: hard drives are actually mechanical devices that store your music on platters that spin at high speed -- like a really, really clever record player...
16 Aug 2005 in Crave
Creative Zen Sleek: come on, feel the noize!
How does the Creative Zen Sleek sound? Loud as a freight train! Run for the hills!
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