Well, Mr. GodlikeCreature, your name implies quite a bit more enlightenment

However, you are absolutely right, this is just report among many and shouldn't be taken like you are refusing to drink the koolaid or something.

There is something called "cognitive dissonance," heard of it? Basically, people who do somethng arduous or EXPENSIVE are made to feel very insecure by people who cast doubts on a decision they have already made, because they fear such a point of view MIGHT MAKE THEM SEEM LIKE IDIOTS for having gone thru such an expense or effort for something less than superlative.

I am thinking very seriously about getting an N900 myself, actually, but I appreciate your report.

Yes, I have oversimplified the concept of cognitive dissonance, but I do think it fits the mentality in these sorts of cases.

Oh, and I just read the Ubuntu review. I think it was really pathetic. Are you SURE that someone running Windows FOR THE FIRST TIME who was used to Ubuntu wouldn't say the same stuff? I have seen MANY Linux users making the same idiotic types of comments about Windows. They are stupid when Windows users make them and they are stupid when Linux users make them.

(I often forget what environment I'm in, personally; I see right now that I thought I was in Linux but I'm in Windows 7! Once you get into a browser it's hard to tell, especially when you're sleepy and it is 3:40 a.m.

PPPS! Godlike, you should look at the Youtube demos of the N900 and see how they compare with your experience. I don't think those guys are lying, but their demos look awfully fast to me.