Sorry, I disagree.

The Newton was a complete disaster. It had a great concept, but was poorly designed and totally unreliable. The critical reviews were dead-on accurate. The Newton was the worst chapter in Apple's history and set back the PDA industry back years. Kudos to Palm/USR/3Com for overcoming the bad example that the Newton was.

It is still VERY true that, by and large, tech reviews are not to be trusted. Too many of these writers fancy themselves as king-makers. I don't understand why they just don't all become sports writers, where this type of attitude is accepted and to be expected.

Case in point - the 770. Go to the various websites (Cnet included) where you can read user reports. Seems to me that users are singing a different tune from most reviews.

This, of course, is just my opinion.

This, of course, is just my opinion.