That was pretty much my draw as well Penguin, I by no means am proficient at Linux but am growing more comfortable with using it, and we all pretty much expect at any time now an announcent from Nokia about the next IT and it'll probably be in the neighborhood of $300-499 US, so when Asus came out and said $199 c'mon.. Who would'nt want to pick one up and hack n' mod that thing ??