Actually, when I bought the N800, I already had done some reading. So I was not too surprised about the "maintanance" I had to do when it came. The first day I was reading across the internet, tried this and that, installed this and that SW. Fortunately, the first thing I did was reflashing. Read somewhere to do flashing first before any other configuration or installation. While this was all fun to me, and part of the first N800 experience, I thought that for a real newbie without much knowledges, this gadget would certainly not be the right thing to buy. Just imagine, there was no handbook, just a paper how to insert the battery and how to connect to internet. So would I recommend the N800 to my computer illiterate neighbour? Certainly not. Would I recommend it to my hacker friends? Certainly yes!