Originally Posted by s_k

The idea of the H1 is obviously to take it with you. You can just hang it above your piano but you can also put it on a tripod and take it with you to a concert. It's quite convenient. Also, the H1 is like a game console. You don't have to worry whether your computer will manage, it'll just do whatever you want. USB mics are a very nice idea, but you know the kind of folks with acer or packard bell computers. They don't really know what they're doing, their hardware is ****e and you end up having recordings with all sorts of errors in it.
A computer leaves a lot more space for human error