Title: Limited functionality, died within a couple of weeks
Product review: My experience was with the 40 GB version of the HD300. Mine died within a couple of weeks, after I had used it only a dozen times. I suspect the hard drive gave up the ghost, as it froze on boot and couldn't be powered off or anything -- I had to wait for the battery to run down overnight.I found the touchpad and navigation usable but not wonderful. I liked the fact that the HD300 shows up on a computer as a USB mass storage device and songs can be transferred by drag and drop, but was disappointed to find that I still had to run an application on my computer (called MPIO utility) in order to be able to search songs on the player. I was also quite bummed to find that the HD300 has no support at all for custom playlists.
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