I couldn't have said it better myself. I work in a retail store that sells electronics and computers and I get people asking all the time when looking at computers and printers if they're good machines and if they're going to last for a while. Technology is obsolete about 45 days after it's released because, as bac said, it's constantly evolving. I didn't buy the tablet pc I'm using now because it was the most top of the line thing at the time or the most expensive thing I could find, but because it did everything I needed it to. I bought it back in June and it was obsolete about a month later when Intel discontinued the Pentium (this one has a Pentium M) series processors in favor of the Centrino Core Duo and Core 2 Duos. Is it dead? Well, Acer's support has always been lacking, but the machine seems to be working fine and I haven't had any major problems with it yet and everything I have had problems with have been things I've done myself since I can't just leave a working device alone.

What's even better with the Nokia 770 is, unlike my mentioned Acer tablet pc, the 770 is all open source and has a huge open source community. Something that's open source will never truely die because there will always be someone who has the same device and doesn't want to upgrade it who will continue to support it. The community is too big to let it die. Now, 10 or 15 years from now, you might want to seriously consider upgrading. For now though, if it's doing what you need it to do and you're content with it, that's good enough. It completely depends on what YOU need it to do and when YOU feel it's become obsolete enough to upgrade. I can't tell you how many people we get calling in weekly wanting to know if things work on Windows 95 so hey, if software and hardware that's 12 years out of date is still working for them, what's something that's what, 2 years old?