I like the idea of a little computer that can understand my speech, but even the Mac hasn't been able to come up with a decent one until just now -- supposedly they are about to release a relative of Dragon Naturally Speaking, almost as good, and $200. It got a rave review in the NY Times, I think it was, but not by Pogue. The Linux world falls the flatest with regard to text to speech and speech to text. But the logical solution for great input is a computer that can understand what you are saying.