Exactly how is this thing different from a four year old Archos PMA430, other than that the Archos has a 30 GB hard drive and can record video? I'm even betting that you can get a PMA430 for less than what this one costs.

I don't trust them with this firmware upgrade, Seagate's been into some sneaky doings lately. First, they were deleting posts in the user forum left and right and now I see that they deleteted from this knowledge base site the "tool" they had previously up where users supposedly could check the serial # of their drive to see if it was affected.

This "tool" did not work! It flagged dead drives as not affected and has thus probably caused more harm than without it. Now I read about people having problems with the new "firmware". This is rapidly turning into a humangous trust issue, insofar that Seagate no longer can be trusted at all...

Does that mean Android now has a virtual keyboard?

What's the use of a Linux tablet, convertible or not? There is no handwriting recognition software for Linux that even comes close to the splash screen of RitePen, so -- Why? To make the purdy pictures?

And yes, according to the article on jkkmobile, it does have a touchscreen.

What's the use of a Linux tablet, convertible or not? There is no handwriting recognition software for Linux that even comes close to the splash screen of RitePen, so -- Why? To make the purdy pictures?

And yes, according to the article on jkkmobile, it does have a touchscreen.

Dyson? Isn't he the one who made a battery-powered dustbuster that works for like TWO MINUTES!!!??? And now he's going to make a battery-powered car...

Well, you sure earned your pay for today...

A 16 and 32GB version?

I was sold until you started yapping about the "energy" and the "CO2".

If I wanted a guilt-trip, a classy hooker with a riding whip would be so much more fun...

Again: What handwriting recognition? I've been using Nokia Itablets for several years and tried Linux on several full-sized tablets and nothing in the Linuxverse comes even close to PenOffice, which itself is basically the ten year old Newton ParaGraph HWR engine, ported to Windows (albeit with an extremely kewl graphical macro engine bolted onto it).

Nokia's own HWR is a joke and the only thing Linux has ATM is Cellwriter, which is a character recognizer, in Graffiti style. The reason everybody seems to want keyboards -- make that "thumbboards", or even dumbboards! -- on their UMPC/MID/Itablet/whatever is that there simply is no decent effort done in creating a usable HWR solution.

But, and contrary to the popular hubbub, the venerable Newtons had near-perfect cursive HWR on the latest (and, thanks to the Satan Jobs, last) iteration of NewtOS. It actually worked better than a keyboard in most cases, other than static use on a desk, but CalliGrapher/PenOffice and Inkwell still use that very same, now decade-old technology.

I realize people are already queueing up to tell me that keyboards works sooo much faster than stupid handwriting, and they're basically correct, provided you're sitting at a normal desk, typing on a standard keyboard with ten fingers (or possibly more, if you're from the American Mid-West). Let me tell you this: Jabbing with your thumbs at a minuscule keypad, unable to keep your eyes on the screen while typing, you're never going to achieve the speed a frakking stylus is going to give you (don't forget that handwriting is the only means of text input that'll allow you to see both what your hand is doing and the result of it on the screen). Fullscreen input HWR is the perfect way of getting text stuff into a pocket-sized tablet computing device and it's not because Jobs hates HWR (and only so because Scully came up with it), that he's also right.