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Most of this forum's readers still haven't adjusted their language to match the reality of the world today. I'm refering to the fact that "PDAs", as such, are virtually extinct and I haven't seen a single discussion about one on this forum in recent memory.
What exists today are "portable computers". They run software vastly more complex and powerful that the basic Personal Digital Assistant software suites. Readers constantly misuse the term PDA and use it inconsistantly. Because of this, the poll, as worded, will not result in any valid results.
Personally, what I want, and what I expect the market to move towards, is separate portable and desktop (probably in a "notebook" form factor) machines that run the same OS, or very close variants of the same OS that allow the same software and data files on both machines. I would expect the portable machine to have fewer resources (memory, HD space, processor speed, ...) which is what makes, for my uses, a powerful "desktop" machine a necessary companion. I don't expect that computer performance and battery performance will advance fast enough that a pocketable computer with great battery life will be close enough to the performance of a desktop machine to make it practical to only one one machine, at least anytime in my lifetime.
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