If I just could break into the thread and reiterate my personal take on HWR and note-taking:

I've tried many a computer, but to date the only PDA that will let me take handwritten notes in a meeting faster than I could manage with pen and paper, is the ancient Newton MessagePad 2100. The Newton's HWR engine (well, one of its two engines, really) is basically Calligrapher without the stupid editing window (on a Newton you can use correction gestures right in the main screen) and without Windows screwing things up on an irregular scale.

50% of my motivation to buy a 770 was Paul Guyot's Einstein project to get the NewtonOS working on Linux-based PDA's. The day he gets it at a reasonable beta-stage with all the peripherals working, I'll never go back to stock Maemo.