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If you want a closed system that, 6 months later, does what it did when you first took it out of the box, the Mylo is for you. I don't mean this as an insult, I don't mean this sarcastically. The 770, which I dub my 'crack tablet' because it's so addictive, has large appeal to those who like to tinker. After a two year hiatus from Linux, I've now got a P4 laptop with Fedora Core 5 on it and working wireless. The amount of stuff I've begun learning again is amazing. I didn't think my alcohol rattled brain could do things like that anymore.

My point, completely avoided above, is that there are trade offs. I agree, a lot of the out-of-the-box apps perform like complete crap on the 770... but they're running on open architecture that allows an infinite number of other apps to be written for it. I'd liken the OS the Mylo is running to be similar to what the XBOX/PSP runs (unmodded of course) and the 770 (forgive me for this, it's an analogy) to be like XP. The firmware on your XBOX/PSP doesn't crash because it's like an idiot savant. It knows several tasks very well. XP however crashes and burns because you can do whatever you like with it. (Well. Except have a good end-user experience).