I'm a touch typist too. However, I found that I tend to take notes in a very "organic" way, with lots of doodles, arrows, boxes and suchlike. With my Newton, I could take notes in ink, translate the parts I like into text and tidy up doodles with the HWR's built-in shapes function.

I know that all this can be done with a tablet pc and suitable software, but the Newton is less than a quarter of the size of a tablet. Newtons two drawbacks (to me) were the near-impossibility to transfer files in a useful manner and the lack of colour. And the latter was only a minor inconvenience.