Check out the Pocketbook 903 Pro. It's basically the 902 but with a touchscreen. It's not available until Oct 2011 but it seems worth waiting for.

Normally that might apply but this is a man who is going out of his way to embarrass powerful people and knows it. Politicians are calling for his assasination in some parts of the West. He had by this point already published the War Logs and who knows what else that already had the American government angry and was moving around frequently in countries with strong free speech laws and strong courts.
Sure, not a traditional thing for an innocent man, but fairly traditional for someone who's pissed off powerful people in government. He's not necessarily innocent but one can't infer it by the usual means with all the political clout bearing down on him and his lifestyle of a hunted man.

With relation to the i.MX515 based net/smartbooks there's one available from Genesi http://www.genesi-usa.com/products and it's according to the company blog it's up for a price drop next week along with the smarttop. They're a developer friendly bunch who've been a big help to the debian ARM project and many other devs. They're working on an i.MX535 based netbook with a Pixel Qi screen but it's unclear how long we'll have to wait for that product.

3G Cellular internet would be great in the boonies if only it weren't the last place that cellular companies roll it out.

Many GPUs do in fact support double precision, its not IEEE standard double precision floating point yet, but that's going to be a feature of the next generation or two. My source is ATi, anything marked with a superscript of '1' does not support double precision maths, everything else does. ATi StreamSDK requirements

If the engineers have been let go from 'Semiconductor Equipment Manufactures' perhaps TSMC should hire one or two at a lower salary.

Out curiosity, does this ruling include file caches in RAM as well as the running executable?

The Open-RD has the same chip as the sheevaplug but its on a normal-ish motherboard and allows for onboard SATA, eSata, 7usb, and VGA. The Open-RD is essentially the sheevaplug on steroids.

Credit to nukem996 for the origial mention of the Open-RD

As it stated in the article I linked, ARM signed the deal with GlobalFoundries (GF) to allow GF to access ARM's architecture and process patents so that other companies could use GF to make ARM SoCs. AMD is trying to move to a smaller process as we speak, so in 2011 when the A5 is slated to come out ARM will be able to use a 40nm process when AMD has long since stopped using that equipment (as stated in the second graphic in the original article).