One thing about the Palm community: we always find new ways to do things using the hardware given us. I really think its too early to walk away from this new product category. I highly highly doubt Palm will lock up the hackability of this new device with their middleware layer. If anything Palm has re-awakened to the genius of its users and plans to leverage that in this new device. Granted, that user base wasn't enough to keep Windows Mobile from taking over the corporate segment but it has been enough to expand the Treo's popularity by orders of magnitude.
In other words, wait to see what this little laptop is capable of. I agree that a price point of $300 is way more realistic, but possibly some Palm pricing executive just sold his house. And in that business you can always lower the price of your house, but not the inverse...
