And this article gets no response whatsoever?

I'm shocked!

You'd think someone would suggest he should get rid of the dell and just put an external monitor on his tablet.

Well, I just posted up a redux.

I can't do it. I love the LifeDrive I got, and it certainly is a godsend when it comes to synchronizing data (contacts, calendar, lists etc) across more than one computer (in my case 3). But, I can't turn away from the Motion for reading, for research, for note taking. I thought I could, but I can't.

Rob and rotten_fruit_fan both make great comments about ditching the Dull and getting a monitor for the Motion, and that's certainly an idea. The problem I always had in considering that though was that if I did that, then I lose the benefit of having a standalone device for notetaking and research when I'm coding or writing; it would be one device for everything and that's a pain with current graphical user interfaces (I'm not a big fan of constant app switching).

So, for the time being, I've gone back to the Motion. I am now, although I haven't blogged it, considering an alternate tack though of getting an M400 and replacing everything with that, if the M400's dock works the same as it did on the M200 (ie I can still read and write on the tablet screen as a secondary screen with my work displayed on a main monitor).

By far the biggest issue here though is the future. If the project my own team are working on takes off, then it's completely up to me what hardware I use and when. I won't have Dulls foisted on me any more. So I'm also juggling that upcoming eventuality.