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Originally Posted by erwin
@DMcCunney: 9"? Hmmm... sorry but on this our needs diverege. 5-6" is the max for me. That, or a rollable/foldable display: I want an at least "near-pocketable" machine!  |
I'm not worried about carrying it in a pocket. My PDA is just about the size where it doesn't fit in a pocket, and that's not normally where I carry it in any case. I technically
can pop a Wifi card into my PDA an go online, but usually don't - trying to do things on a 320x480 screen is painful, and too many sites don't have mobile-friendly pages. (And the state of the art in Palm OS browsers lags that of other devices.)
WRT the ASUS 9" model, what I'm looking for is a device that does a large enough subset of normal tasks that it can
replace a laptop in most cases. The concern is weight, and (to a lesser extent) battery life. A lot of what I do on desktop or laptop really needs a larger screen. (The desktop, for instance, has a 19" monitor in 1600x1200 mode. If I had room on the desk that holds it, there would be two of them...) I like the current ASUS models, but want a bigger screen.
And I don't care for the thumbboards on various of the devices. If I need to do any extended keyboard entry, I'll get a bluetooth folding keyboard.
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Dennis