Pros: Good integration for gmail and sharing services like youtube and flicker. Quick email delivery from gmail, even though it is pull. IMAP4 works well without any inconsistency between my online and local inbox. Good finger friendly touch interface, vastly improved over older versions of the Maemo OS. Excellent multitasking capability, and navigation mechanism for switching between multiple applications quickly. Fantastic media support, played divx files out of the box without requiring trans-coding to a specific resolution (as long as its 800x480 or less i believe). Tons of flexibility. The N900 is a little linux machine and it has a cell phone... how awesome is that. Granted not every application is ported, but if you are a DIY kind of person the opportunity is there. Great messaging integration. GChat, skype and SIP all integrate really well and give quick notification of messages. Plain SIP support! I can finally have a portable extension to my PBX in my pock

Cons: The build quality is no where near the quality that the N810 was. The N810 was ALL METAL and it felt great. The N900 is nice, but it has an all plastic back and ... doesn't feel very "metalish" to me even though .. i think it has a metal screen frame. That said, its better than a G1 for sure. The phone is too thick. Not by a lot, but it seems like it is needlessly thick. The camera lens "slider" cover and stand seem superfluous and add about 1/8" to the thickness of the phone. Why not just make it flat? I had an N810, then an Android G1, and now the N900. The N900 is pretty close to the Android platform as far as smoothness and integration of messaging, email, etc. but it's not as polished. The keyboard layout and 3 row setup is a little odd, but I got used to it quickly. The onscreen keyboard is great too. Nokia is moving from Maemo to a joint project with Mobilin called "MeeGo", this is not a "con", but it requires some faith that Nokia will continue to support t

Overall Review: I had an N810 and I loved that hardware but wished it had a phone. When the Android G1 came out I got it, and i was happy (after i rooted it) but its not really a linux machine in your pocket. Before i got the N900 I was really nervous that it was going to be like the N810, which ran OS2008 and had a TERRIBLE UI for touch, bad mobile email and im integration etc. I can say, that as a previous android user, I am happy with the N900 on a day to day basis for email, messaging etc. As a hacker I am happy with the phones openness and well documented SDK and tools. As a consumer, I felt like Nokia abandoned N810 users b/c its software can no longer be upgraded its stuck on OS2008 forever. With the merge of Maemo and Mobilin, Nokia made me feel like maybe I made the wrong choice and was going to get shafted again by Nokia abandoning its users. Many people at Nokia say that will not happen, and I am inclined to believe them b/c the N900 is so new. For now, its an exercise in fait

Pros: They work in my friends generic dvd burner but not my sony.

Cons: I cant even get them to start burning using my sony burner - speed doesnt matter. It gives me an error about trying to find a descriptor sector or some thing on the disk then fails - it doesn't even start to burn. I tried some TDK media right after these failures and it worked fine.

Pros: This is an excellent key board with great tactile response, and a good price.

Cons: I should have gone with the IBM compatible layout. As a programmer and Linux user, I use the pipe key | often. This is normally located above the enter key with the backslash, but this keyboard cuts the right shift key in half and places the pipe to the right of it so that it can have a big fat L shaped enter key.

Overall Review: I ended up buying another keytronic but with the ibm layout. I've sinced moved that one to my office, and this one to my home where i do less stuff that requires the pipe key.

Pros: Inexpensive, completely surround your ear so there is no pressure on the cartilage, decent but not great sound. Good form factor.

Cons: Cord is short and cheap. Mine broke the first day when it got pulled (b/c the cord is to dang short). Not great sound, kinda tinny. Maybe better for gaming, but Ive got a $20 pair of sony mdr-v300's that sound a lot better. If i could get a mic on my mdr's id use them.

Pros: Great board, good price

Cons: The Realtec 8168 Network chipset is not very compatable with Linux. It is compatible, but drivers are not in new kernels by default. A new Centos5 install did not work with the card out of the box.

Overall Review: The only reason I gave this board a 4 instead of 5 review, is because of the NIC, and Linux compatibility issues.

Pros: The board is cheap

Cons: Terrible chipset. I only ever got one channel of sound to work with the onboard chip. The biggest problem is how seriously this board lags when multitasking. Im running gentoo 2005.1-r1 with a 2.6.15 kernel on a p4 2.8ghz/1.25GB ram. Using this board my computer lagged whenever i tried to download a file, and listen to music.

Overall Review: I switched to a MSI board with intel 848p chipset and BOOM world of difference. My machine NEVER lags now. My roomate has the same problem with his VIA chipset ASUS board that i had with this P25G I will never ever buy a VIA chipset board again.