That's a special *US* webstore offer. To get an European perspective, switch the country, and, surprise surprise, you get a 399 EUR price for a 120GB (the funny part of the Dollar>Euro stance is that Archos is French).

Archos pricing scheme, not quite apparent to many buying into Archos:

DVR Station (video recording abilities + fast charge): 100 EUR
or Video interface (if you just need video out): 30-50 EUR

Headset with remote (yes, no mic or plain 3.5 headset for input): 30 EUR

H264 and AAC support: 15 EUR

MPEG2 and AC3 support: 15 EUR

Full HD support/plugin (which can only^H^H^H^Hno longer be preordered): 15 EUR

And, my personal favorite - game packs (with games like Reversi, Solitaire and Mahjong): 10 EUR.

So, when you sum it up, you get 450+ EUR for the 120GB model. Now, if RX-51 doesn't beat this into the ground both price and feature-wise (sans the HDD, of course), I'd be seriously disappointed And as for the new announced model, it's speicifications and pricing are not any more solid than the RX-51's so, lets just wait till both apper and then we will be able to actually compare the two (as far as you can compare a probably locked down device with a Maemo one ).