Indeed, the crunchpad is the exact kind of device that sounds really cool when you first hear about it, but then after you think about it for a minute you realize there's no way you would ever need to use something like it
Are you kidding ? I would buy it just for being able to read stuff at the kitchen table or in the bed. The $200-300 is exactly right price for this sort of gadget.
So do I. In fact I wrote a good third of my first startup code in bed at a nighttime. It died shortly after though because I didn't vacuum it regularly :-)
The thing is that I really don't need a keyboard to read a PDF, nor do I need it to browse a couple of dozen of sites I frequent. And this is all I do before going to bed or in the mornings. The CrunchPad-like tablet is not as a replacement for a laptop, it is more of a beefed up (ebook/Internet) reader. Lighter and simpler, both physically and functionally. It doesn't appeal to you - fine, to each his own. But there is a substantial demand for this sort of device, so yay for it.
