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Originally Posted by JoninKrakow
This is, in large part, due to the fact that the Palm is the satellite and the computer the hub. The Foleo turns this upside down. The phone is the hub, and the "computer" the satellite! _That_ is what I've been looking for!
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Been there. Done that. Doesn't work.
The problem is that you constantly run into the limitations of the satellite computer. You constantly want it to do more and you run into the necessary limitations of the system. So after a period of frustration after running into those limitations, you get a laptop.
For a while, I had a Sharp Actius MM20. A very small, lightweight laptop. The only spinning media in it was a hard drive. It came with a docking station that let you mount the MM20's hard drive to your main computer. It took me all of 15 minutes to create a synchronization system with my main box.
So, I would put the laptop into the docking station, run the sync script, pull the laptop out and go. When I got back, I just ran the sync again and all the updates were on my main system. It worked great.
But it was small (which is what I wanted in a satellite system). It was battery friendly (I got about 6 hours with the extended battery). But I constantly ran into its limitations. As a "surf the web, do eMail" system is worked great. But it wasn't enough.
For $300 more, I bought a full featured laptop and I have gotten much more use out of it.
As a laptop replacement the Folio fails.