I just don't really understand all this angst over the lack of a single feature. Because I don't need it, I guess, and I realize that means nothing to those who do. But I think mostly I just have different expectations for the N900. I mean, just because the N900 is called a "mobile computer' I didn't expect it to be able to do everything my home Linux box or mini-laptop can do. I do expect it to be able to do most - but not all - the things they do, without wires and from my pocket. My truck and my wife's Mini Cooper S will both get you there, but the truck will carry more stuff while the Mini does it quicker and makes it fun.

And that's the difference to me. The N900 is meant to be mobile, far more so than even a netbook or tablet, used totally wireless and utterly portable, except for charging or hooked up as a mass storage device now and then. To me, that's what it's intended and designed for - totally portable computing, and hooking up DVD drives, external HDDs, etc. etc. are not in my definition of totally portable pocket computing. That's what desktops and laptops are for. Each to it's purpose.

If I want to do more than the N900 was intended to then I fully expect to have to find hacks or alternate methods to do those things. I wouldn't be mad at the device designers because I'm expecting more of it than it was designed to do or standards they didn't write.

The N900 won't do everything my desktop box or laptop does and that's ok. It's still a computer - a very, very mobile computer.