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Having owned both an iLiad and a DR1000S, to my mind, iRex have "got it right" with the DR1000 - it's what the iLiad "should have been". iRex have given the DR1000 a much more rigid chassis which makes the machine feel a lot sturdier, and the user interface is drastically improved over the iLiad; the DR1000 has a generic "document framework" which means, for example, that you can look up words in a Mobi dictionary from within a PDF document. The "task manager" on the DR1000 makes it easy to have multiple documents open at once, and quickly flip between them.
I find that the capacitative sensors on the DR1000 work extremely well. They are "buttons", but buttons that don't physically "move", which means that you don't get any of the "finger strain" that you can have on some devices.
There are very few operations that you have to use the stylus for - remember that there is a version of the machine available without the touch screen! Pretty much everything can be done using the buttons. The only operation I've found for which you have to use the stylus is dictionary lookup, and there may be a "button" interface for that which I've not come across.
All in all, an excellent machine.
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