Jim from ARS Technica recently gave his thoughts on the AV420 portable media player from Archos. Here's a short snippet from his review:

Finally, I decided to cut through all the treacle and went ahead and bought an Archos AV420 PMP. Archos is considered to be the "Mercedes Benz" of the PMP market. They also have several models: the AV700 (which has a huge screen and lots of storage space, but also costs more than a lot of low-end laptops these days), the AV480 (slightly larger than the AV420, but with an 80GB drive) and—of course—the AV420, which is the smallest of the bunch and has a 20GB hard drive..



Link: ARS Technica