Since they've been buying pre-assembled computers that came with Windows (including Internet Explorer and Outlook Express) and a trial copy of Microsoft Office already installed.* So that's like ...fifteen years now? Twenty? Computers designed for the consumer market from even futher back than twenty years ago were presented as fully armed and operational devices (ooh, it comes with BASIC!), so I can't see how this attitude would be surprising.

With that said, it sure does seem like the 770 is being evaluated against current day laptops, which is definitely weird considering the price difference. Any laptop even remotely similar in form factor is going to be at least four times the price.

Nokia needs to either start positioning the 770 as a unique device or they'd better be ready to launch a completely distinct Maemo device sometime in the near future -- at this rate no one is going to take the 770 seriously. ...Not that anyone (except us) really seems to be taking it seriously now, of course.

* Note: I'm not advocating any of this software as being "good" by any stretch of the imagination. It's horrible software that was, unfortunately, widely adopted.