What I said was "..but not a MAC". I am not one of the rabid Apple haters (my 1st PC was an Apple][), I just think they make bad engineering decisions, e.g. the unchangeable battery in the iPods, the unusual proprietary external video scheme for the unit that you mentioned in another thread (with photos, nice job!) so that you wind up sending NTSC video through an audio cable if you don't buy theirs. As far as PCs go, the MACs are OK and even excel in some areas, but I couldn't afford one that will do what my Win/Intel based one will, and there's a lot more 3rd party hardware and software for this (open) platform. OT for this thread, but I made 4 MP4 rips today with 3.0.9.6, two from HDD files with no sync problems. These were made for my cellphone with very low video bitrate (~165 kbps) and screen size (176x94), so probably not a good test. I'll try a more standard configuration when I get a chance.