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Originally Posted by borisb
I'm not sure I'd advertise the eDGe as even approaching this. At 0.8 GHz, it's slower even than most netbooks, more and more of which are even dual-core. enTourage advertises it for light email and internet usage. It is, after all, really just a cell phone (sans phone) that's quite large, with a cell phone OS. "Desktop replacement" is a pretty weighty term...
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To clarify, I wasn't the one claiming that the eDGe was anything close to being a "desktop replacement." Quite the opposite: see second paragraph of what I wrote in #7 initially in response to Nick's ridiculous claim that it only needed a physical keyboard to be a "desktop replacement" (which he half-assedly disavowed in his subsequent post).
With an iRizer and a foldable keyboard, the eDGe makes a nice little mobile workstation and it's lighter and more compact than my laptop (which is a true "desktop replacement"). Although I'm sure that some undergraduates on a fixed budget will try to stretch the limit's of the eDGe, I wouldn't rely on the eDGe as my primary computing device for schoolwork, as I need something that runs Stata and Matlab effectively. But I'm not even sure that I'd want to write a lengthy paper on it, for no other reason than the screen is too small and I find Docs2Go to be inadequate for doing any extensive spreadsheet work or even word processing.