For $250 less, you can get a 15" Dell laptop with Ubuntu.
For $400-450 less, you can get a 10" Dell netbook with Ubuntu.

In both cases, it costs slightly more than that to have Windows, if that's your fetish.

While they'll have less battery life, the operative consideration with a netbook is _price_. (and, for that price difference, I can get an external battery charger that will charge both my netbook and my phone, and possibly power a cradlepoint)


At $800, this thing costs twice as much as it should. The person who compared this to "pulling a Sony" hit the nail on the head.


I'm very sure that, in netbook land, I'll be sticking with my existing Dell mini. Their price points and OS choices are exceedingly better that what we know about the Nokia offering so far. Unless the official announcement says something amazingly revealing (like there's a tablet version or a convertible tablet version, AND it comes with Ubuntu or a modified version of Maemo), I think the only mid-range device I'm still waiting to evaluate is the Apple 10" tablet.