Yes they are, you won't find me on those services either, but what I'm saying is that personal information that Google might snatch off of you is a mere speckle of what FB does, and yet [s]people[/s] sheep don't seem to have a problem with that.

In such setup, privacy concerns are really overrated.

And how do you plan to achieve 1080p recording and/or HD games on an N900? The original concern was that one would have to replace his N900 because others will have dual core CPUs, not because others can record in HD (not to mention that I see a little reason to record 1080p on a hand-held device anyway - physics, ain't it a bi*ch, you can't fit good enough optics in a pocketable device to grant you acceptable light throughput for 1080p). Other devices gaining new features do not make N900 obsolete - lack of support does, tho...

And come on, better multitasking? Do you see any device (of this form factor) in the foreseeable feature that can even compete on the same level with the N900 when it comes to multitasking, let alone surpass it? Something running webOS perhaps, but I'd be highly skeptical...

You still failed to provide a reasonable argument for that one. Unless you want to run live video transcoding, a full-blown web server for 1000s of people, do complex bio-chemistry or physics simulations, or something along those lines on a handheld device, N900's HW is anything but underpowered. Not to mention that, unlike other platforms, N900 could actually do the mentioned tasks quite easily, it would just lack the muscle for it.

True, it would be nice if it would have a dual core CPU, at least 1GB of RAM, better camera, stereo mic, HDMI/DP out, USB host/OTG etc. and no doubt devices released in 2011 would surpass it on the HW spec sheet, but what good would that bring you if you have an OS that outright considers you as the enemy, or spends half of those resources just to run itself, or you have to ask the manufacturer/carrier for permission to access those features?

I know why I've got N900 (and ordered another one yesterday) - not to flash it in front of my friends, and not to be satisfied with crumbles that the manufacturer decided to throw me, but to use it as my laptop replacement that I can fit in my pocket and carry it around wherever I go. And so far, it's been doing that task almost flawlessly, and certainly much better than anything else out there on the market, including the devices which have double the RAM or double the CPU power than that of the N900. And I don't see anything else in sight that could replace it. YMMV.