[3May]

Here's the weird thing. For GPS use, it actually works fairly well. When I downloaded a movie onto the HDD, playback using SMPlayer onto a TV was really impressive. Sound was low but the TV compensated for it somewhat. So, as a road tool, it might work: think long drive with kids, load it up with a few movies, and you can probably save your sanity.

However, web browsing is a horror on this. Opening PDFs is a bit of a challenge. And the screen constantly loses its calibration data, so once you start scrolling down the side, you either need to make your scrollbars very wide to compensate, or you have to recalibrate once a day. Inexcusably dumb.

I would conclude, based on the tweaking I've done (and I am using eBoostr, which is just a faster form of paging than HDD paging), this is largely useless as a mid or laptop replacement. It is barely an eBook reader, due to its inability to maintain a calibrated state. It works surprisingly well as a space-shifter for videos. It does work as a GPS unit.

It runs hot, battery life is laughably short, and it's amazing it ever sold for $1500. It's also for sale, if you want it.

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