Can you reassure me why I paid about four times what a Neo 35 would cost with comparable hard disk space (i have a 40 GB empeg II)? Of course the empeg has advantages like a fancy graphical UI and a fancy graphical management tool, but to me those advantages are not worth nearly as much as the price difference between my empeg and a Neo 35.

In other words: why does the empeg cost so much more? Is the construction and quality of the components really so much better that it justifies four times the price of a Neo 35?