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I like my N800. I find that it "just works" for what I need it for -- a bit of mobile web browsing, catching up on a movie or show I missed on television, or any number of other ways the device has found a niche in my day-to-day life.

Of course, maybe it's just the "gadget appeal"... it's just plain cool!

Oh... and, maybe I'm the only one here that also owns both of the previously pictured portable computing devices? I still use the Model 100 every once in a while, usually tethered to an open serial port on one of the desktops as a tty terminal. The other is used for its "ooh and ahh" factor among fellow geeks... and also does a decent job of propping open doors that like to swing shut.

I also have two japanese/english IBM 5150 (8086-based) desktop computers (the DOS interpreter, in ROM, will hot-key switch between english, and kanji or katakana japanese!!), a PDP-11 (ooh! look at the pretty blinky lights!!), a DEC Rainbow, and a whole slew of 80x86 computers [where x = 1, 2, 3 or 4]. Perhaps I should open up Brian's Eclectic History of Computing Museum!!
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