It looks like a great mobile device. With a keyboard as small as that it would hurt to frequently type. I would rather purchase a mini-notebook like the HP Mini-Note which features an almost full-size keyboard. The disadvantage to this is that Windows Vista doesn't really perform well on the HP Mini-Note, but you can downgrade to Windows XP.

I am very interested in your journey to find a companion device for your laptop. I am in the same boat. I have purchased a desktop replacement laptop, but it's too big to lug around to pop into meetings just for notetaking in OneNote, accessing my diary, etc. All serious work I will continue to do on my laptop. To date, my best idea is to purchase a Ipaq 211 (with a fold out keyboard to use on the occasions that I want to type notes... I can type reasonably fast).

So I am interested in any further blogs you do on this subject, particularly because I don't have the luxury of physically trying out most devices.

The R2Hv is excellent for inking but screen rotation is a problem. Although you can rotate it at the higher screen res I can't get it to calibrate properly. I just tried the latest version of irotate, it does work but isn't quite right. Back to landscape.

I installed Origami 2 it ran well with the Pentium M processor and 2 gigs of ram. I did get a lot runtime errors using the integrated browser. It's a nice interface but to me it's not worth the resources to access programs already installed. I can live without it.