Well, I'm not an academic or a student and I realized I'm possibly more entertainment media oriented than I had thought. I think i may have misunderstood what some of the performance of the PE would be. I was hoping for a conveniently portable little machine that I could use for both Skype and Netflix, plus any other general websurfing/shopping/research and document reading I might want. After reading what some posters have said it sounds like the first two apps I wanted to utilize are not compatible (at least not without rooting the machine or changing the OS, which I'm not sure I can or want to do). The PE seems like a capable machine, but possilby a netbook or regular laptop might have served my needs better. I know there are a lot of fans for the eDGe and it's little brother, and I'm willing to listen and learn (the wifey wants me to return the PE and get a laptop intstead and I'm trying to hold out).

On a side note, I'm so glad the forums are still here. After seeing the home page about the app store being gone I was concerned. I didn't see the usual links to get back here. Honestly, without the forums to access all the knowledge here I would have contacted Woot again to tell them I'd changed my mind and wanted a refund instead of a replacement unit.