Actually, I lambasted the press event and what was being said about the product. The hardware itself sounds very nice, with the exceptions noted.

My personal punditry track record is actually pretty good, even though I sometimes "hope" against my own predictions. Some products just come before their time and you know they're going to get killed off and the concept put on a shelf for a few years before the next step is taken. Case in point, the Newton, the grand-daddy of the products we're discussing now.