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the Rio and am looking at on Ebay is only a 10MB model



10 MB?! You might be able to squeeze 3 songs onto there. No, I'm sure you meant GB.

Let me put it this way. If you get an empeg you won't regret it. You might not regret getting a Neo either though. I've never had one, butfrom what I hear they get the job done, but they lack all of the fancyness, neatoness, coolness features of the empeg.