I disagree. There are times when Opera Mini is the perfect browser based on your connection.

While Opera Mobile is a fine browser when the connection is good (3G/WiFi), it suffers when on 2G connections. Even Turbo mode does not help when dealing with content heavy pages.
The reason for this is the page is rendered on the device (html/javascript/images etc) . Turbo mode helps by compressing the images on opera's servers first, but the image is loaded by the page the same way.

Opera Mini can load the page quick (minus some functionality) because the ENTIRE page is rendered on opera's servers first, then sent as a single file to the Mini browser to be displayed.. and the size difference is huge so it transfers quick on a slow connection due to it's tiny size.. so when I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere on a one bar 2G connection, I have a way of getting help without waiting forever.
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I know as a community we have managed to run Mini on J2SE within a J2ME emulator, and it has worked so far. But it has the overhead of a VM within a VM to get it to work so it tends to eat the battery.

Thats why I was hoping the Devs at Opera Labs would consider making a Maemo native version of Opera Mini, as they have done so already for iPhone and Android..

The N900 is a versatile device - moreso than others, and Opera Mini deserves a place on it.