Since people took their time, I went out and bought one XD
Lots of things got me interested in it really, a lot of people at work have them and go on about how fantastic they are. Here, you can get bbc Iplayer (television programmes on demand) for free on it, pick a bbc tv program thats been on within the last 2 weeks and stream it at high quality, plus people at work say how you can stream videos, music etc from your pc straight onto it. I also happen to have always liked playstation, and the games that come out on it, I do love xbox, mostly for Halo, but it has far too many fps's and not enough rpgs etc for my liking. I dunno, all these contributing factors, as well as some nice titles on it (mgs4 for example) just made me want it >_<
This linux thing sounds interesting too, i want to be able to digitally paint in my room, and have high quality references when I do traditional work (painting, drawing practice etc) so if I can get linux, a copy of photoshop and my tablet to work on it, I'd be over the moon.