FlipStart microPC Hits the Road

A week ago I reviewed the new FlipStart micro-PC from the Paul Allen-backed FlipStart Labs. In that review, while I found the FlipStart to be cool, I was pretty down on it both for its high price (just about $2,000) and its size and clunkiness. But I have till the end of the month before I have to send it back so I wanted to see if additional use would warm me up to the FlipStart's charms. So in the last week the FlipStart has come with me on a visit to the MIT Energy Conference and taken a train ride with me from Boston to New York where I was presenting at the Ziff Davis Security Summit. Has my opinion changed? Well, I am getting much better at typing on the FlipStart, no longer accidentally hitting jog dials or the wrong keys. And the built-in EVDO connection was a...