The nerd in me - my next set of computers

I’m thinking of going from this:

1G MacBook w/ 1tb external hard drives

Treo 650

To this, after Leopard comes out:

24″ iMac

1.5tb external RAID 1

Eee PC 701

Some smartphone because I have to stay on Sprint - I’m thinking a BlackBerry or some HTC thing with a big keyboard.

Why?

I need more screen real estate; the iMac provides it, and I can add another LCD in the future.
The RAID makes me feel better about the huge amount of data I have lying around - if one of my hard drives went out right now I’d lose my music collection. (Sort of; I have piecemeal backups.) For people with less stuff, there’s an argument for using Amazon S3 instead of a desktop RAID.
The Eee PC allows me to get a desktop machine; it’s cheap, light, doesn’t have any moving parts so the battery life should be great, and if Apple releases an ultraportable, I’ll flip it.
As for the phone, in lieu of an iPhone, I think the BlackBerry is as good as it gets on Sprint. I know the HTC Touch is coming out, but I have doubts about Windows Mobile and touchscreens.

Thoughts?

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