Makes me wonder why the OP bought the iT in the first place.

@mtad : Where on the box or anywhere did anyone claim that the iT had a PIM suite in the first place? Why did you buy the iT knowing that it did NOT have an PIM Suite, then complain about the absence of a PIM suite?

The iT is not meant to be a PDA like the Tungsten and certainly not meant to replace one's PDA.

Also, I would argue that the web browsing experience is purely subjective. I have used Palm OS over a number of years, and I could NEVER say that I have EVER enjoyed the crippled web browsing experience on a Palm. Frankly, I find that web browsing on my E51 smartphone is superior to the Palm's, but hey, that's just my opinion.

While I agree on several other points (that you did not mention) that the iTs are not ready for mass market consumption, your arguments are somewhat weak -- you are comparing a PDA with an Internet Tablet.

Why not compare your Palm with a Mylo, or a Sidekick?

While the IMAP experience is less than ideal on the iT, I've no complaints getting Gmail working on POP3 and since then I have had no complaints because it does:

MP3 playback
video playback
VoIP (Gizmo, Skype)
web browsing with a desktop experience
email (Gmail POP)
streaming music from Vagalume/Last.FM and the media player's list of Internet Radio Stations

For PIM, push email, and quick web lookups, i have my E51.

I could run a comparison of how the Tungsten isn't as good as the iT, but that would be just pointless

So you've posted a nice long post about why the iT is not for you. I agree, but what's your point? That's it's not ready for prime time? Works for me, and I'm not a sophisticated user.

Your point is that it doesn't work for you, is based on:

web browser experience -- subjective argument. Along with many people here, the web browser on the iT is far superior to what is on most other PDAs anyway.

documents and PIM not up to par -- iT was never meant to have or run document management software anyway, so why complain that it doesn't do what it was never supposed to? Palm and Windows Mobile claim to be able to handle DOC/XLS/PPT so it BETTER be able to do it decently. Where did you see that OS2008 was touted by official sources to be able to do DOC/XLS/PPT? PDF works (at least for me, and I have encoded A LOT of work-related documents for on-the-go reference), and I'm sure you agree.

Email -- POP3 works (even with Gmail), and IMAP4 (not with Gmail, but it works on my other mail provider) mostly works

You need to check your contacts fast? My phone does a really good job of it. Looking up contacts is a means to an end -- you're either going to call, IM or email that contact next, so it's only natural to do the lookup from my phone. Doing a lookup on a PDA and then dialling it on my phone is so 90's

I just got my hands on an eePC today. Nice, and definitely so much nicer to input stuff on than the iT (I'm using an N800), but it's too big for me, battery life too limited (2 hours of online time - my N800 gives me AT LEAST 3.5 hours), no means of extending battery life with AA batteries (gotta buy a battery pack replacement), and limited storage space (my N800 does 16GB x 2, and the eePC only does 1 x SDHC). It's a different tool for a different task. I wouldn't use it for contacts either, and having to operate the device with one hand is a bit of a PITA on the eePC.