Great idea!

I have to admit I'm still reluctant about advising non-GNU/Linux-geeks to buy a N800. BUT: That's because of the way I use it. I do things that need xterm and root access, I use applications that are marked as "highly experimental" by the developers, and I like to push my tablet to its limits.

Thinking of it again, a friend of mine uses his N800 without any trouble. He does call me every now and then because he has problems on his desktop PC or laptop (WinXP both). All of these problems are caused by the "too many factors involved" phenomenon (firewall, some exotic device driver, orphaned registry entries...). None of these are involved on his N800. He uses the device "as is", with only one additional application installed.

So maybe its execatly what some of us see as restrictions what makes the device so easy to handle for beginners.