Archos the French consumer electronics company, swings its doors open on October 4th 1988 by Henri Crohas. Archos is best known for their range on portable media players and portable storage devices, digital video players and portable video players (PVP). Archos current range of products includes the Archos 5 Internet Tablet which uses the Google Linux Android, Archos9 PC Tablet Internet media tablet sporting Microsoft's Windows 7 OS weighting a mere 800 grams, Archos 10 Netbook is the company's first netbook with a 10.2 inch WSVGA screen and Microsoft's windows XP OS, Archos has added the Archos 2 and 3 to their line up in their Mp3/Mp4 portfolio with an amazing 10 hours of music, weighting 50 grams and comes in both 8GB and 16GB versions.