Portable music... MD or MP3?

[Mushlafa]

Ive been reading some reviews... only bad ones just to see the downsides of the product... For anybody here with one can you tell me if the battery life really stinks and if your a windows user i read that some people get it set up and ready to use it in like 40 minutes and some people spend days trying to get it work to no avail and end up giving it back for a Creative Zen mp3 player...

8 hours battery life is really **** tho... that barely makes it through a day of school... and the battery isnt replaceable thus after 250-350 charges the thing becomes a paperweight... a very pretty paperweight tho.. a $500 paperweight...