skb: I'm glad not to be the only person who names typewriters and lappys! Bob sounds great. What happened to him?
jdcarpe: I agree with what rcentos said. Thanks for the recommendation, but the Freewrite needs to change a little before it will be more useful. I have two alphasmart neos and belong to the Flickr group where there's been heated debate about the Freewrite vs Alphasmart. No one likes the absence of arrow keys nor that you can't delete any of the files in the cloud.
Conan: thanks for the link, I'll take a closer look at it. I'm hoping to put a copy of Word onto it from an old Works Suite disc. I've had to purchase an external optical drive for this because the laptop doesn't have one.
Crich: if your 10" one is big enough to write on, that gives me more reassurance for my 12". I just hope it's not going to have any other problems, like none working keys; but I can send it back within 30 days. It should arrive just after Christmas.
