Originally Posted by SemperFideles

Craig,

I'll be interested to see what kind of advice you get. The government provides me a Blackberry for free and I find it useful. I like it because it is set up to receive/send my e-mail while I'm away from my computer and has my contacts and calendar entries from Outlook on it.

Increasingly, however, when I'm stopped for any length of time, a PDA is maddening to me. I hate having to scroll through a long e-mail and the screen is too small to view any PDF or Word attachments that I have. Hence, I find that having a notebook is indispensible for me (especially since I also want to read the Puritanboard if I'm on the road).

What you might want to consider is that you don't need to have a PDA that's going to become obsolete relatively quickly given the amount of $$ you'd have to sink into it just to get a reminder of calendar entries. Unless you're going to be getting critical e-mails on the go or need to be reminded of appointments that you'd otherwise forget, you might find that carrying around a really small, lightweight notebook might be better for you.

This little badboy has been getting a lot of attention lately: ASUS | Eee PC (costs about $400)

It uses a customized set of applications and runs on a variant of Linux but many have found it to be a really good piece of gear.

Anyway, I don't know what your needs are but I wanted to give another perspective.