However, there's no great way to search and the load times are sometimes painful

Its not as good as the classic IPOD if you can find one( IPOD is way more intuitive as all apple products and won't sync with your library) but for the money this is a good way to go for sure

After you learn your way around the x3 its pretty easy to use

The user interface is totally easy to get used to and it laid out in a pretty intuitive way that anyone who used an iPod can understand in 5 minutes