[Harmon]

Originally Posted by CraftyDan

alas, the man purse has not had it's full day in the sun, and I fear I won't be trendy enough to carry one if it ever does.

I've tried to carry one around. I actually have a couple of "special use" bags - one for opera/concerts which will hold binoculars, chocolate, glasses cleaners and a book. Another for when I'm being a tourist.

But on the whole, I don't like carrying things, bags or otherwise. Cargo pants are my salvation.

I will agree, it's harder to get a comfortable grip on a smaller device. It wouldn't surprise me its one of the limiting factors on pbook dimensions.

Other way around for me - comfort increases as size decreases.

My pockets aren't as big as yours, but I didn't need a jacket to get to work this morning -- nothin' personal, but you can keep your winter

Well, I don't have to worry about floods & himorhurricanes. But I spent many of my formative years in south Alabama, and believe firmly that a reasonable winter temperature is 30 above, not 30 below.

I would point out what you and others have mentioned -- you've had to train yourself to pre-press the button to accommodate the processor lag.

Yep. Fortunately, I'm easy to train. Ask my wife...

I do agree that larger screens are accommodating to non-fiction as opposed to fiction, but I doubt you've never tried it on something bigger than 6" -- after all, I look at technical documents all the time on an 19" screen.

When it comes to documents which extend beyond one screen, I have difficulty reading on computer screens. If I really want to read them, I print them out. I think part of the issue is the aspect ratio - that is, I expect a certain page ratio similar to a book's, and computer screens are too wide & too short. I don't like the half page reading experience.

I'd love to have a full page monitor, but my employer is the government. Lowest bidder & all that. And of course, there's no such laptop.

I go from a top line Mac with an ethernet connection at home - shazam! - to a slow poke circa 2007 PC running XP at work- pokety pokety pokety. I have learned to deal with lag.

In the end, I'd love a smaller-faster-cheaper device for personal use, and someday, someone will make one. However, today, I still own a 600 and I'm pleased with the device. Faults-and-all, it's the best intersection of what I require and what I'll tolerate.

For a long time, I've hoped that Apple would make such a product. But I'm about to officially give up. Even if they do, I'm afraid it will be too large. So for too smaller/but faster/kinda cheaper it looks like the iPod Touch.