Been thinking about it for a while now and I finally bit it and bought a Zune (4g, black) and I was mildly irritated right off the bat.  Let me back up -- I have a sandisk 1gb that has the mega-idiot feature.  You plug it in, its a mass storage device, copy paste, copy paste, unplug it, it rebuilds its own index, done.  Sigh, I guess I have to graduate to using someone else's interface and I'm FORCED to use it.  Not so happy about that, but oh well, I'll get over it.

I download the software from the zune website and ! I've got a ...firmware update available?  Really now??  Ok, I'll play along so update away.  Sure enough, a process that I am very familiar with commences and within a couple minutes I've updated to 2.1 -- cool.  It activates my zune (which again, I'm fundamentally against, why should I have to activate? ...agh, anyway) and now I'm met with the zune software.  It's bad, I kind of like it until I try to copy over my playlists ...which are in media player -- both made my MS so they'll work nicely!  Bernt!  Wrong.  The correct answer is to open up my current playlists and changed them over to m3u(?).  Grr.  Ok, great, fine, dandy, now I got music and away it goes.

I'll confess -- I had never bothered to look into pod-anythings.  At all.  Ever.  Why? I'm not a fan of apple and the crap they sell.  Luckily, on the zune is a (shameless) plug for msnbc that you can download the evening news ...I happen to missed yesterdays news so off I go.  I see I can subscribe so I get everyone of 'em from, cool.  "So what else does this thing have?" and it was all down hill from there.  I find strongbad has a feed, ask a ninja, bbc radio, discovery, cnn, a bunch of places and I subscribed to 'em all.  I configured it to take some more so than others (keep 3 vs 10 etc). 

Alright, I got some musica and some podcasts downloading, awesome...soooo how do you make this wireless sync work?  Long story short, I gave up on Vista and it worked perfectly on XP (I got a spare PC that has all my junk on it) -- and its nothin short of freakin awesome.  I come in, tell it to sync, sit it down and a few minutes later, done -- even connects @ 802.11g!  Now, just a week later ...I've got about 500m free and thinking I should've bought the 8gb at LEAST.