Laptops/ notebooks aren't really portable enough to be organizers
unless your job (sales?) always has you toting it around and they become
a theft problem if you do.
PDA's & the better smart phones do work for organizing purpose.
I organize the heck out of my life with my Palm TX PDA that I have had
for some years.
I bought a nifty folding keyboard for it that I keep in my car's
glovebox and since it has wifi, bluetooth (it's address book can
operate my cellphone) and supports corporate email, the personal
information manager apps. (Palm Desktop or MS Outlook), personal info
apps (Splash ID), MS office docs, cut and paste and can sync with the
same apps on a PC or Mac (so I can more easily do the bulk of my input
there)... AND IT FITS IN ANY POCKET ... so I highly recommend
considering such.
BUT ... Although my PDA (and others) can display photo and play videos
and MP3's, unfortunately, its screen , web browses, graphics capability
and user interface is old school when compared to the iphone etc.
Which, brings up the dilemma re: PDA's like mine if you were to buy one
now.
While PDA tech isn't being advanced any more ...as the market is turning
towards smart phones .... the current generation of which possess
telephony & flashy graphics etc... smart phones aren't really as smart
or full featured yet in ways that PDA's... are. (No cut and paste,
Office docs, external blue tooth keyboards, large collection of 3rd
party apps, or extensive organizational PIM integration).
In a year or two I'll be switching to a future more fully implemented
future generation of smart phone but for now I am sticking to the Palm PDA.
So I don't know what to recommend to you ... but that's what I know on
the subject...
db
Ranbo wrote:
I have an opportunity to get either a laptop or notebook for free (up to
some dollar amount) through a program. It probably has to be a PC. So
wondering if anyone has any thoughts on the pros and cons of laptops vs.
notebooks, especially anyone who has used both.
To now throw in one more variable, if the main or ostensible purpose of the
notebook or laptop is to help one be organized in order to work, and if it
would be possible to get a PDA (or maybe a smart phone), which, if any, of
these devices (laptop, notebook, PDA or maybe smartphone) would be best for
helping one get and stay organized, both at home, at work and in other
situations, like running errands? That is, I might have the option of
getting a PDA or maybe smartphone instead of laptop or notebook, but only
ONE of these. I'm also thinking that if I can get one of these paid for,
maybe best move is to get the most expensive, e.g. perhaps a laptop, and buy
the other, e.g. PDA, myself. I can't afford to buy both or even, really, a
laptop.
Thanks and hope this isn't too confusing a question or set of questions
Randall
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