it all boils down to what you really need: movies, music, light surfing, light gaming - touch programming, note taking, heavy surfing (cut+paste), palm, pdf reading - tablet i never really treated the tablet as a music/movie/gaming gadget, and i never will. maybe that's why i've no interest in the touch. for me it's more of a serious productivity device. typing on my n800 has really grown on me, i can even type faster than my friend types on his eee pc