I try to see uses for technology before leaping to conclusions. I'm running into the block most people have about tablets on this device though. If you're going to have a keyboard I'd like to be able to type on it efficiently… You can't on this thing. If I'm going to thumb type I don't need keys that are that large. The Screen is barely bigger than that on the Motorola Droid, but that runs at 840×480, this is 1280×800 which is traditionally a 12″ laptop screen resolution… I'd rather have a tablet. At least then I wouldn't waste a lot of time on a keyboard I can't touch type on, and I'd have enough screen to be able to read information displayed on the screen at that resolution.

I can't help but think that at a certain size, the advantages to a traditional clamshell style laptop become liabilities. To me this device is at that size. I can't think of many things this device allows me to do that I couldn't do far more conveniently on just about any other device format.

Which is sad, because I'm not usually the kind of person that looks at tech and says “What's the point?” However at $850 I am saying what's the point? It's impossible to be productive on it. The screen is realistically too small and secondary for this to be a media centered device. I couldn't even really read e-books on it comfortably without cranking the magnification up… The form factor just doesn't wow me, the engineering makes me think of a over sized PDA, and that's where the price completely kills it for me.

I try to see uses for technology before leaping to conclusions. I'm running into the block most people have about tablets on this device though. If you're going to have a keyboard I'd like to be able to type on it efficiently… You can't on this thing. If I'm going to thumb type I don't need keys that are that large. The Screen is barely bigger than that on the Motorola Droid, but that runs at 840×480, this is 1280×800 which is traditionally a 12″ laptop screen resolution… I'd rather have a tablet. At least then I wouldn't waste a lot of time on a keyboard I can't touch type on, and I'd have enough screen to be able to read information displayed on the screen at that resolution.

I can't help but think that at a certain size, the advantages to a traditional clamshell style laptop become liabilities. To me this device is at that size. I can't think of many things this device allows me to do that I couldn't do far more conveniently on just about any other device format.

Which is sad, because I'm not usually the kind of person that looks at tech and says “What's the point?” However at $850 I am saying what's the point? It's impossible to be productive on it. The screen is realistically too small and secondary for this to be a media centered device. I couldn't even really read e-books on it comfortably without cranking the magnification up… The form factor just doesn't wow me, the engineering makes me think of a over sized PDA, and that's where the price completely kills it for me.