Good: Looks OK, sounds OK, they've added a sheet explaining about connecting the battery!
Bad: Not all that loud, disappointing construction, can't charge and use at the same time, only plays MP3 (not WMA, etc), iPod Nano (gen 4) doesn't fit properly, iPOD Touch doesn't work at all.
The Street Machine looks fairly good and sounds OK but that's about it. Whilst the speaker bars are metal the grills are plastic and bend, so don't really protect the speakers from any heavy abuse. The plastic dock 'lid' will almost definitely break off with any sort of use and many of the controls seem rather cheap and tacky. The retractable handle also seems a bit flimsy.
Although the quality of sound is OK I was disappointed with the volume; it's quieter than my 10 year old Panasonic CD player. You have to use a switch to choose between charging and using the unit; once it's dead you have to stop using it to charge it up again.
The Street Machine might have worked with iPods from about 5 years ago, but its obviously not been updated for later models. Although my Nano worked, it didn't fit into the supplied Nano dock adapter so the iPod isn't supported properly. Worse still the iPod Touch just doesn't work at all. The USB and SD ports work OK but play ONLY MP3 files; the WMA files on my Creative Zen just didn't register.
It's an OK piece of kit if you're not expecting anything professional, and have an old iPod. Which, for the price, is probably what you should expect.