Probably not going to stop anyone buying it, but I don't like Archos. They are very restrictive in giving the community information about their devices . If the firmware is bad, don't expect Archos to fix it. I once had a PMA400 that was pretty expensive. Archos never replied to pleas to release sourcecode or update firmware. Hardware was great, firmware amazingly bad...
Looks like they haven't changed their ways...
http://discarded-ideas.org/archosfirmware