Ok, So were a band that loves to record live. We used to use the old minidisc before Hi MD and before it broke down on us. Because the old one broke, we have a nice mic for it, some disks etc that we can use(unless the hiMD ones are special). I have a $200 budget. We plan to use the minidisc to record live music with a mic line in only (we dont care about uploading music to it etc) as it is a cheap easy solution to recording all of our shows. I have heard that the new minidiscs have the ability to upload the DATA to a PC via USB, thereby eliminating the need to sit there and upload in realtime... We used to use Polderbits to realtime it to a WAV. Im hoping that the new ones allow you to just data load (usb 2.0) right into some program that allow conversion to mp3 in time that is significantly quicker than real time. Does anyone ahve any suggestions? And dont say the 910 because it appears as though no one has this model in stock. We dont care about cool features, etc. Just want to be able to record digitally and get to an mp3 on a pc as efficiently as possible. THANKS!!!! www.craig2000.com