Woot woot!

Woot woot!

Woot! I'll take a Zune!

What run-around are you talking about? A product launch date?

And yes, amazingly, it won't turn on or work w/o power. Nice catch there.

@Tom: Understood, and it's not surprising to me. My company has a bunch of Dell 1500s (which I configured and support), and all have awesome keyboards. That's what makes this so weird... all the 1520s keyboards suck. :/ Maybe it's bad luck, but 3 (out of 3) keyboards that are loud, flexible, and mushy to type on doesn't bode well.

Oh, and sorry for the double-post, the Dell SMB version of this has no crapware at all on it (w/ the notable exception of Norton, which made it about 4 seconds before being uninstalled).

Good douche-nozzle post, iKurt X.

I've got (literally) three of these computers on my desk right now. They're nice with two exceptions:
- the keyboard sucks - it's bouncy, rattles, and is generally loud and mushy to type on
- the lid is a fingerprint magnet

Beyond that, it's pretty well specced, quiet, and if the 1500 is any indication, solid hardware. (I have worked w/ lots of the 1500s, and not a single problem yet.)

No, what's disappointing is the lack of support for newer versions of Maemo on older devices. Correct me if I'm wrong please, Nokia, but isn't one point of a Linux platform (i.e. Maemo) support for legacy hardware? So, how can I have Apache running on a 286 but you can't get your "new" version of the same thing running on a 400MHz processor?

Nokia's take: "what happened in 2008 stays in 2008."

My take: "Buy Nokia "smartphone" or "featurephone" hardware at your own risk. It'll be obsoleted / unsupported before you can charge it up again."

I have to say, glensky, your math doesn't take into account the Euro / US exchange rate. He's hitting in at .68 Euros to the Dollar (hailing from Portugal, as his name suggests), meaning his points ... wait, 68% of total fail still spells "FAIL", even in Portuguese. Nevermind.

I've gotta say: the referenced post is why I can't stand the Mac ethos...
- Mac user: what does it -look- like and how fast is it?
- Win / Linux user: how fast is it and how much does it cost?

Sure, all things equal, I'd pass over a beige / charcoal gray brick for a nice, shiny laptop, but I refuse to pay literally 3+ times the price for the same thing. "Shiny" is not quite that valuable to an intelligent person.

It has USB ports that are accessible, a removable battery, but only allows external drives, and, as far as I can tell, has only one DIMM slot (not positive though). The latter is the only real concern I have about it, but... $400 is a mighty compelling reason to overlook it, especially w/ web programming as its primary duty. I think I might pick me up a couple.