Hopefully the Last Annoying Tech Question I'll Ever Ask

[dorian gray]

i kinda need a PDA for work cuz ive been lugging around a 35 pound backpack for 4 years. i havent researched those things in quite awhile but i assume theyre pretty expensive, considering all the stuff you can pack into them now. my question is, would there be more value in a laptop than a PDA? i dont necessarily need the ultra-portability of the PDA so i kinda figure for not much more money i could have a dvd player and ability to play games on slow days and etc.
whatchoo think?

 

[MajestikMøøse]

There are some pretty frickin small laptops being made today

 

[dorian gray]

word. thats what i want. i assume the smaller they are the more they cost? erkface

 

[MajestikMøøse]

probably, but I'm not sure. That's about it for my contribution to this thread.

 

[Nate The Great]

My wife and I both have PDA's. She also has an ultra-portable laptop. PDA's are limited, but they are useful for me in the field and at meetings and such. The smaller the laptop, the more expensive. But you should be able to get something around 5 lbs. for $1000. I can give more information on PDA's or the ultra-portable laptop, if you want.

 

[Nate The Great]

Oh . . . we both have Dell's top of the line PDA's (X51v, I think). They run about $400.

 

[dorian gray]

yeah, i got on their website last night. mmm... i dunno. they have laptops for $500. yeah, big clunky ones but laptops nonetheless

 

[lurch70]

i fucking hate pda's with a passion ... by the time i jot anything down in one, I can write it down on a notepad 10 times over.

have a small ultra portable Dell laptop though ...

dorian ... check this site daily for super deals from Dell ... http://www.gotapex.com/

 

[dorian gray]

thanks man

 

[Nate The Great]

PDA's definitely serve a purpose. I have a whole bunch of spreadsheets in mine that I've made up on the computer before hand. Then I just have to enter information as necessary. It is a huge time saver, and it definitely helps with data accumulation. Taking notes with a PDA is pointless. That's not what they're for.

 

[Night Mare]

Mac Laptops get cheaper as they get smaller.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

but Macintosh is the antichrist, you know this.

 

[Nate The Great]

Both Dell and Sony have a sweet ultra=portable laptop that uses either Singular's or Verzon's cellular wireless thing. I think pretty much any laptop can be configured like that, though.