Very nice article, very well written. However, I have one addition. The hardware compatability list on Be's website isn't near complete and hasn't been updated to reflect the new driver support offered by the point upgrade v5.0.3. There is another hardware list at http://www.thebesite.com/3/hardware/ that isn't official, but it's based on users' rating how their own system hardware runs in BeOS. You'll find many more supported devices there.