Let's assume a best case scenario, that in n months the Neo900 lads deliver new boards that we can throw into N900 bodies. That'll leave a load of N900 boards homeless, despite being full of potentially useful components. How much hardware and software modding would it take to use them as a Raspberry Pi style bareboard computer? Such a bareboard N900 (π900?) would lack touchscreen, keyboard and cameras, but would still have its processor, memory, wireless comms and μSD slot. Some thoughts to that end...

Will the Neo90 need the 3.5mm A/V plug in the N900s case or will it use its own? If it's not needed, could it be attached to the board to give the π900 composite output? If it is needed, could a replacement be found, perhaps cannibalising an old N95 or other device that had TV out. It looks to me as if it would need to be held in place somehow: epoxy like the USB strengthening attempts, or good old fashioned tape?

Is losing most of the I/O going to upset maemo, or does it present an opportunity to stop worrying about getting upstream software to work with them? Would we even need maemo, or would a more mainstream distro work now it didn't have to worry about the small screen?

Would/could/should you hack a direct power supply, or could you get a battery connected?

Bear in mind, the most likely candidates to get Neo'd are N900s with something wrong with the mainboard and everything else sound; given the N900's known weaknesses this means no USB port. Is this a problem or, given we are no longer worrying about fitting it back in a case, an opportunity to attach a better port?