Sorry for the lull in my Scala vs Groovy posts - I bought a new toy a couple weeks back and it's been sucking up my free time. I've got three posts mostly finished and they should be out soon. The funny thing is that I bought the thing to become more productive.
As for the device itself - it's fantastic. I ended up buying the 2G Surf model (512 meg of RAM, 2 gig SSD), basically because it was available and I wanted one right then and there (unsurprisingly the 4Gs were few and far between). While I'd recommend the 4G version to anyone buying one (as there's at least a chance that you can upgrade the memory in the 4G, it's got a better battery and isn't as underclocked), the 2G is fine for what I wanted (as I was going to install Xubuntu to a SDHC card no matter what model I was going to get).
Xubuntu installed fine (though a very small amount of extra work was needed to get WiFi and sound working), Java's running fine (though I've yet to test Scala and Groovy), mplayer's runs (though I think it'll run better with the underclocking switched off, yet another item on the to do list). Firefox runs and Google Reader's offline mode makes for a great way to pass the time on the tube to work.
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