Ah. I think that there's a bit of confusion between memory and storage. There's 512 meg of storage on the new cybook, but the same amount of memory (I believe). And since the hangup is memory, 512 meg of storage changes nothing. So porting to the 64 meg one and the 512 meg one is the same thing.
As for your question of how having Cybooks on hand could speed up development, an example would be to give it to a developer as an enticement to develop.
As for jekhor being the only knowledgeable one in low level stuff, it is not mostly kernel hacking that is needed at this point, but optimization of our libraries (which is a lot less specialized).
Dottedmag, please correct me if I'm wrong in any of the above.
(I also have a tendency to spout pure nonsense