That review does seem annoyingly familiar - the reviewer makes a petty complaint about the mouse overshooting but thats quite possibly the reviewers problem (a lack of practice on a small screen/sensitive mouse) and nothing to do with the device per se.

I would agree the FlipStart is large, heavy and outrageously expensive - but it's remarkably small for what it is, a fully functional PC. Unfortunately as with all UMPCs so far, they're compromised in too many ways and suitable only for niche requirements.

I personally don't see a need for UMPCs, but that argument has also been aimed at Internet Tablets which makes me think that unless you have a "need" for this type of device then it's generally considered utterly worthless. And if a reviewer has no "need" for this type of device then bad reviews will follow - this does suggest a lack of objectivity/imagination on the part of the reviewers, which I think is true judging by most Internet Tablet reviews (and not helped by pre-release firmware!)