Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Dont buy the Archos 5!

Word of advice. Stay away from Archos products. I got this Archos "Internet Media Tablet" in 2008 with the DVR Station dock which expanded it. Now, I keep it on the dock most of the time because I rarely use it, but guess what, that ruined the battery. So that killed its portability and nowhere in the manual does it say that (prolly because it's counter-intuitive?). Now yesterday, the resistive touchscreen failed (probably because of the dock again) so I'm pretty much left with a non-portable 250G harddrive with an almost useless screen! (The dock remote still works, so at least, I still have some level of control but the harddrive is making funny noises now so it might be next). I never abused this thing SO for it to fail because of a dock reeks of bad design and quality control. So, if you're getting any thoughts, please, DON'T BUY ARCHOS!