In fact, the latest (last?) build of the OS has finished drivers for ethernet and WiFi. The PCMCIA slot is indeed outdated, and will not accept cardbus cards, but the CF slot is identical to that of my Series 5MX, and that old thing took a 1 gig CF card without a hickup. There is no such thing as a "HC" CF standard, they all work. I consider the absense of Web 2.0 support a bonus, but mostly the operating system, user interface and built in applications are of a superior standard.