You can be hopeful, but unrealistic hope is only good for setting up dissapointment. Your hopes are not completely unrealistic, but the parts of them that are make the rest unrealistic.

IF you understand that the things I covered prevent what you're wishing for from happening, and understand why and how they are preventing it, then you can build realistic hopes on top of that. And more importantly, you can understand HOW to act, and how to get other people to act, to make what you want actually remotely feasible.

It's like saying we can have open source phone stacks and GSM and 3G connectivity drivers on the N900 becuase the rest of it is open source and the N900 is close to a true computer. Yes, in principle it is doable. That does not mean that Nokia decision makers are gonna go out of their way to give you their closed source code. Same with this. The people who call the shots at Nokia are not likely to agree that just because this thing is sorta like a computer, they should give you the ease of upgrading of one.

You know how the N8 didn't have a user-removable battery? And just now the HP Slate, a computer by all rights, running Windows 7 and all, came out without user-accessible RAM. Notice a pattern? There is a signifcant disconnect between what people like us want, and what the people selling us devices will do. Why? Because the few of us who realize that what we want won't happen without public pressure on the makers are outnumbered by those who like you, just sit there and hope.

Do you honestly think it'll happen JUST because you hope for it? Well it won't. Not if people who want it passively sit there and keep on thinking that because the N900 is close to a computer, companies and the people running them will be interested in giving you hardware upgradeability. So you want your hardware kit? Did you write someone at the head of Nokia yet? Realize that the people who get to decide if the N900 gets hardware upgradeability do NOT view the N900 as some mobile computer. The people who made it and, maybe, those that marketed it, legitimately felt that way. The people at the top who get to say "let's release upgrade kits", most likely just view it as one disposable device among a few hundred. They'll build you a device that has all the better hardware within a year or two, for a slightly greater profit for them, and they know that you'll still buy it, or if you don't, enough off the masses will.

So again, you want hardware upgradeability? Then instead of stating your hopes over and over here, go dig up the contact information of higher-up Nokia departments and individuals. Prod the community council members to contact Nokia on the community's behalf. I would love to see hardware upgradeability on the N900. But if we just sit around and hope, it won't happen. Even if we spam Nokia with emails/letters/phone-calls, it may not happen - but at least it will lead them to start seriously considering it for future devices.