Tablets. Do we need one? Do we want one? I think the answers for me are probably "not really".
But I'd been thinking for a while about getting a new device just for reading feeds and e-books. The desktop gets tiring when all you want to do is churn through feeds. The couch beckons. But the netbook isn't a great device for this by nature. You still have to be positioned in a certain way.
I thought about a Kindle. But the Kindle fire doesn't seem to be coming out over here, and the other devices don't properly support web browsing. Also, the Amazon devices are probably unacceptably locked down. I thought about a Galaxy tablet or something expensive like that, but in the end I couldn't really justify the cost. I looked at budget tablets such as this Ainol, but after some research decided it was too much of a risk.
In the end I decided why not just go for that one tablet that's been pushed out in front of me the last few months: the Vivaldi. Make Play Live's tablet is actually a Zenithink C71 with KDE Plasma pre-loaded. If there is a tablet for me, it's this one. Cheap, open to relentless hacking, and comes with Ice Cream Sandwich.
So I ordered it on Amazon, and it came to about €100. It was dispatched from Hong Kong yesterday and I hope to get it within a week. I'll post a review then, and following that my experiences installing Plasma Active.