I've used the discontinued H4 and own an H2. I found the interface for the H4 to be frustratingly overcomplicated. Meanwhile the H2 was easy to use and yes even comes with its own little removable stand and microphone handle. I you want to use a mic stand/boom the latter is good to have.
As for using the H2 as a plug-in USB-type device to record in realtime I'd advise against it. You have to download a special ASIO driver for it and it almost completely messed up my PC's audio card settings. I think it's better to just record with the unit as a standalone and import the raw tracks to your editing software via USB. The real beauty of these Zoom recorders after all is that they're portable and - provided the space you're recording in is ideally suited to for recording cleanly - produce reasonably good quality. Good enough for youtube certainly though I'm not sure about for CD quality though I'd hazard a guess that a few of the AGF CD submissions were done with Zooms.
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