I would recommend against creative MP3 players. When my sister and I both owned creative players, there was a few well known manufacturing defects in all of the players. Literally the only thing to do was to open it up and re-solder some points on the circuit board; which completely voids your warranty in case anything else goes wrong. Something did go wrong with mine, as the hard drive crashed about 15 months after I bought it. It was out of warranty, and I'd voided it anyways fixing their shitty manufacturing, so I was pretty much screwed.
After my Creative broke about 2 years ago, I bought a ipod Nano and haven't had a single problem. I got an ipod Video a year ago and I've had the same results. Hell, everyone in my family has at least 1 ipod(my mom tops the list with 3) and we've never had anything even remotely negative happen with them.
My love for the ipod aside, Mac's suck.
