What you are thinking about is a touchscreen and they are very
similar to notebooks, but more expensive.
There are some notebooks available with Solid State Drives (read
flash memory chips) and the drives are smaller (32-64 GB I think) and
again you will pay a premium for those.
The sub notebook or netbook is a newer type and their screens are
smaller, generally about 7" diagonal. Mostly for Internet surfing
and stuff, not robust.
For PDA's there is still the venerable Palm and I think HP still
makes their Ipaq's. (Palm uses Palm software, Ipaq's windows mobile based.)
I think you need to develop a needs list before you get any
farther. What do you want your appliance to do for you!!!
I have a laptop and a smartphone. My smartphone is my appointment
book and address book.
They work together, but one does not take the place of the
other. (And I do not want it to.)
Stewart
At 10:27 PM 1/5/2009, you wrote:
From my brief reading up on the internet and talking to 2 friends, I thought
some differences are: 1) you can hand write on a notebook and 2) notebooks
don't usually have internal drives. Is that not the case? I'll have to
read up on netbook as well.
Randall
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[email protected]
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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