Ancient when you look at the requirements to look at your typical modern website. 800 wide just doesn't cut it anymore.

Perhabs, yes. Or a subnotebook, or a Flipstart kind of device, or a Sony Vaio UX etc etc. Lot's of different devices nowadays. Not all are available everywhere, though. (But I haven't canned my N800 just yet.)

All very small competitors have 1024 native res. With a good zoom function browsing is perfect. And, in case of a Windows OS, 100% functional.

Yes, considerably. I have a Win2k3 webserver and a win2k3 file/printerserver. There is no easy way to administer them with my N800.

I also have a MediaCenter PC. I canned MS MCE (sucks ) and installed MediaPortal on it. N800 cannot make good use of it. N800 also can't really access mediaservers -in general- by uPNP.

There is no easy way to access Windows file systems with the N800.
Should I continue?

You can do alot with the N800, but also lots and lots of things you can't. But as I stated, I haven't canned it (yet).
But a new IT? No way. Not even at $200.

The point is that the n800 is not meant to be used to administer things.
OS2008 claims to have UPnP support, never tried, but it should be there.
OS2008 also sees SMB shared file systems in the File Manager.

The N800 was intened for occasional use while, for example, on the sofa.
It's an N-Series device, those are intended for fun purposes: multimedia and stuff like that.

The fact that is has Linux and CAN be used to do much more things that it was supposed to do, is not a good excuse to attack it when it doesn't do those things well.

Also, I am not a web designer, but I do recall that the websites should be designed with an 800 pixels wide area in mind.
Designing a website at 1024 pixels is wrong (or at least it should, recall: I am not a web designer).

Having 1024 pixel on a 4 inch display just means stuff becomes much more sharp (it's already at more than 200dpi!!) is that added sharpiness really useful ?
True: you could use more space, but how small things would be ?

So I am not so sure about these complaints...

unless you consider them as they are: personal

True. Well, then let's look at it's 'Core Business', Internet browsing:

When it would be a brilliant webbrowser, it could stand. But as it is, it's stuck at 75% (at best) at displaying the majority of websites. Not a reason to hang on to it for that reason either in my book.

As I said in a different thread before: think of n800 as a swiss knife. You put it in your pocket; it does various things adequatly. Do you want to use t to chop bones like a cleaver? Not in ordinary life. But if you are in prison and have plenty of time, you can certainly do it.

Lol. Yes, very true.

most accurate definition I have seen so far. Brilliant
One of the most common mistakes, maybe, is think in the N8XX as a laptop in some way...is not a laptop. Every time I think that way I feel frustration.
As for the web browsing experience..It should be improved, that's right. But for a $250 gadget (my price) I am sucking a lot of juice from the IT. Never mind the N810 at the $400/450

The N800 was only introduced in 1/07. A 10 month product lifecycle would be short, indeed!

Where's Texrat now ? He's all but disappeared since Friday...

Most likely sleeping in a hotel in Helsinki...

Alright:
Yes, I too got a notice that the n800 was discontinued. It wouldn't surprise me, but then again, you can still buy new n770s, so I expect to see them for sale for a while now.

Saying "It's not designed to do X" is not an excuse for ITs. It is an excuse for iPhones.
Saying "It doesn't have the power to do X" is a legitimate excuse.
800 pixels wide is sufficient resolution for the screen size. I still await the day that web designers wake up and smell the CSS. I have problems with fixed-pixel web pages being too small on my desktop. For most sites, there is no reason why your layout should be so cluttered that you *need* more than 800 wide.

If you're putting a bigger screen in, you'll have to put in a bigger battery. At that point, you might as well go with an x86 processor and end up as a UMPC.

I don't think of it as a Swiss Army Knife. It's not a collection of tools watered down for portability. These tools gain power by being portable.