When you consider the electricity that is needed to keep one of these tablets working for years to come, you will even out in financial numbers.

Forget about technology. People have been living without computers and gadgets for centuries. This will adversely impact the health of the developing and some underdeveloped nations because it will have a direct impact on the pharmaceutical and medicine field. One simple example would be the cure for AIDS. If some company found a cure for aids in the form of a $50,000 shot, then it is not going to help people in the poor countries where AIDS is more prevalent. Unless they wish to sell it for $10 or less, nobody can benefit from it. This has been true with many pharma companies in the past who don't collaborate or make a cheap recipe to be used in poor countries. So does that mean the people's lives in poor countries are less valuable than the people in developed and rich nations? This is what you get for being purely capitalistic. The age of "love thy neighbour and everyone deserves a chance" is gone. :(

It will be interesting to see how competitively they price it against the xbox and the play station. I would definitely get one if it is in the sane price range.

To teach Linux lessons, all you need is the terminal which is available in all distros. I am not sure why all this fuss about distros.

I totally agree with the eye strain. How many of you slashdotters have perfect 20:20 vision ? I guess not many...hehehehehehehe. Tablets and smart phones definitely put a lot of stress on your eyes when compared to bigger monitors.

Then you should get an ipod like device. Why the hell do you need a smart PHONE when you are not going to use it as a phone?

Its time to make the 64-bit Firefox a reality. It would take the same amount of work needed to make a 32-bit compile on the 64-bit OS. Go..Mozilla Go...

I would go for a cheap kindle for $88 which can hold a lot of textbooks. Don't waste your money on a good tablet since it may be a distraction during the class where u may receive emails / notifications when you are taking notes. For taking notes, nothing still beats a good old paper and pen. Most of the presentations from courses in most schools are now posted as scanned PDF notes in the respective course websites or the sessions are posted as videos.. So there would not be too much note taking anyway.