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I sort of miss having a PDA
I sort of miss having a PDA. I mean don't get me wrong having a Notebook is cool and having a Gameboy Advance is cool but my Sony Clie was pretty slick. I gave it to my cousin Gavin. I would love to get a low end PDA that had WiFi internet access so I could check my email and do some light surfing without having to bring my notebook PC. I would ask for my PDA back from Gavin but there are no WiFi cards for the Sony MemoryStick slot on the Clie. The way it stands I would have to spent $250 on a Pocket PC or Palm OS PDA and then a $100 on a PDA WiFi card. That is a little to pricey to just want to check my email with out my laptop.
I have my eye on a thin, light, and powerful 12 to 14 inch notebook two years or so down the line when I get a new notebook.
But a WiFi PDA falls ito a category of things that would be cool but I by no definition of the word need. WiFi and PDA are a field that is advancing and evolving so fast that it might be good to wait a bit until they cross over from the pure nerdly realm over to the everyday users. I guess the technology is much like what non-nerds think about cell phones. People want them but they don't really need them.
Jake at September 29, 2003 
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You are just spoiled. The notebook is the best thing because it gives you so many options jakemeister. If you had to choose, I bet that you would pick the ultra cool and lightwieght notebook. You already have it after all.
I really think it is a good idea that you are looking for a 12 inch notebook in the future but your notebook was a really good buy and I just think you are suffering from PDA Withdrawal Syndrome....or PWS....if you turn the "W" upside down what does it spell?
J/K
Posted by: pete at September 29, 2003 8:28 PM
Dell's got new Wifi pda's coming out.
Posted by: Tim at September 30, 2003 4:11 AM
Ive got an old ipaq, one of the first color models, I bought a keyboard for it and have been taking noats on it ever since. It would be nice to have a wifi card but it doesn't. I still like it.
Posted by: LaMiNaToR at September 30, 2003 6:54 AM
Funny, that. I've got a Dell Inspiron 500m laptop at home, which connects to our broadband link via a Linksys router/firewall box, and I've been looking at some WiFi-packing PDAs lately, mainly the Tungsten C and the new Dell Axim. But, in all honesty, I'm struggling to come up with a good reason for buying one, since I don't do that much travelling, least of all to any WiFi hotspots.
Posted by: Alan Ralph at September 30, 2003 8:41 AM
I am interested but what I want is a Wifi PDA package for three hundred bucks or so. I am not looking to blow seven hundred bucks on a PDA or I would have gotten one of the Sony Uber PDAs.
Well I have a Wifi network at my apartment and I go to seattle once a week were there are hot spots galore.
Posted by: Jake at September 30, 2003 9:15 AM
Very useful comments - good to read
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