Derek Kite wrote:
> I bought a laptop last year for work. I use it to access controls systems.
> Necessary, but not worth spending 5000 dollars. I got a Compaq. The battery is
> useless, essentially a small desktop replacement. Frankly, I don't know how
> they sell this garbage. I print in win98, and the whole thing slows right down.
> Garbage. But it sells, because it is the only thing there.
Laptops serve a very wide market. One buzzword that is being used a lot is "desktop
replacement". For me, the battery is fine for
short stints like airline flights or moving from office to office. It is a very good
tool to have "all of your stuff" just there
and ready to work with so you don't install yet another PC with you tools for a day
before you start a contract.
> The palm works. Period. You get one, put batteries into it, use it, and by the
> time you need batteries it is an essential. I filled it up with games and apps,
> then deleted them one by one, until I have just what I need. I am writing an app
> that fits my work precisely. I pick up my email (this list) to read during the
> day, pluck web pages to read, track the jobs I do.
This is the exact reason why we developed the Datastick MyCorder
(http://www.datastick.com). There are a lot of laptops out in the
field that are being used to measure analog data. It is way too expensive and
overkill. Thus, we put an A/D in a modem case, wrote
some realtime measurement code and -- viola!! -- new price / functionality point and
we have been shipping since last year.
>
> Color, or other features are fine as long as the essential experience that
> makes the palm so useful is not compromised. I looked at the IIIc the other day
> in a store. Very nice, and as far as I can see, they got it right. Color in a
> V form factor will be a killer.
I really want to see a Vc. That would just rock!
>
> I would like to know how many PocketPC's are going to be in bottom drawers when
> the owner forgets to charge the battery and finds he didn't use it anyways.
Or expensive skeet! I know Newtons sounds really neat with buckshot slamming through
it while 20' feet in the air.
Steve
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