Bollocks. ~$730 for a machine with no hard drive, an extremely show (and cheap processor)? I can go numerous vendors and purchase a laptop with decent specs for less than this. Ridiculous.

If your connection is slow then so is your ability to do work. The is the dirty little secret of all hosted applications anywhere. So you have a 5 Mb/s pipe? What does that matter if the network between you and your host is giving you lag like you're in Central America on a dial-up modem? Until there is ubiquitous and consistent broadband access in the U.K., the U.S.A., the EU and where ever else this may be deployed it's going to be OK at best. And it will always be at the mercy of construction workers everywhere; all it takes is some one with a backhoe to chop through a 256 cable backbone somewhere.