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Originally Posted by ePossum
Thanks to Natch & cassidym for their welcome.
Thanks too to Marc. The dana is a device that's aimed at the primary & junior secondary education sector. For years though it's also filled a gap for those who just want something to wordprocess with (and don't care about bells and whistles!) that's relatively inexpensive (in comparison to laptops), that's light, and that has a decent sized keyboard. It's pretty ugly, but it does the job. Its OS is Palm, so it also has a bit of flexibilty in terms of what you do with it - within the limitations of its display. Reckon though that the dana's days are numbered with the arrival of eee PC and with the leaps and bounds that the OLPC project has made.
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Not really. The Dana is fine for what it is: a dedicated word processor with PalmOS under the hood. I note the current versions bundle Documents to Go. Older versions used a custom version of Blue Nomad's Wordsmith word processor for PalmOS. I run that here, as it's still best tool I've found for
creating text on a PalmOS device.
The eee won't replace it. It's simply too small. The attraction of the Dana is the full sized keyboard. I know a couple of professional writers who have one for travelling. It's compact, lightweight, and instant on. If your main purpose is writing prose, it's an appropriate solution. The eee is a much smaller device, with a keyboard that is usable but probably unsuited for touch typists. The OLPC is better in those terms, but still not a good fit for the purpose the Dana is meant for.
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Dennis