I think that it's a complete waste to have all this processing power available in the empeg to just play MP3's, and I'm sure others will agree..

The whole point of the empeg to me is a mobile Linux box, that has both high quality audio output (looking forward to hearing mine.. =) and expandability (From a software point of view)..

I don't know much about the AutoPC, except that it has voice recognition (surely of limited use if the music is loud) and runs windows CE (I'm not going to touch this argument.. =)

Besides, most of the things mentioned here are things that us hackers want to do.. We are not expecting the empeg folks to develop more than the core stuff.. =)