The Sandisk Sansa series of mp3 players is probably the best out there. Simply use Windows Explorer to move media back and forth is simple. It requires no software, like iTunes that makes your pc slow to a crawl and cumbersome to transfer media to your player.

The radio reception is great and the ability to record from the radio or a memo for later is great, too.

To me, the simply of transferring media more than outweighs the lack of playing the mp3 player while connected to a pc. All my music is backed up on my pc anyhow.

We have an e250 and e260 in our house already. I'll be getting one for myself...