It seems to me that the X5x's problem is that it's architecture is not made to take advantage of the way WM5 is moving. From the articles I have read, WM5 will present new opportunities for the way the hardware is made. The X5x was made with WM2003 in mind.

Here is some areas I feel that new devices will be better than the X5x when running WM5:

RAM and ROM types, and sizes.
Flash (SD/CF) port I/O speed and connection reliability
Power management
Memory management

I would have bought my X50v either with or without the WM5 upgrade. Now that I've read many people's comments, I expect the X5x will probably always run better with WM2003.

For now, all I want from the upgrade is the newer Office applications. I certainly wish I could extract them from the update.

"I'm a perfectionist, but not very good at it yet."

.....umm....okay. I imagine that WM 5 will be better than 2003SE in the long run, though.