Also, I have to say that all the negative threads about the N900 affected my perception of it. When I got it I was terribly afraid that it was broken and actually thought it had some problems. At some point I thought my GPS had problems (which it doesn't, it just takes some time to get a fix since I don't have a data plan, and hence no AGPS). At another time, I thought I had the reboot problem but it turns out I installed something from extras-devel which caused 1 reboot (and only one).
In the first few days I was actually treating this thing as something very fragile, always afraid I might do something that would break it forever. The reality is Maemo is a sturdy piece of software. It can take a lot of abuse. And, mind you, I already knew this from my experience with the N800. That's how much all these threads affected me.
I'm really happy about this device. It's everything I ever wanted in a phone/internet tablet.

I believe that all the threads about gripes with the N900 are not doing a good service to the community. Especially the ones where the problem is just a dissonance between the user's expectations and the intended functionality. There are quite a few posts where people describe problems before actually trying to figure out if it is a bug or something they are missing. The playlists problem comes to mind: playlists are there and work great.

I'm happy someone started this thread, so that new users don't get a biased view of what the device really is.