02-07-2008, 08:40 AM
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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. | I thought about a notebook...the only draw back, to my mind, is that it is more difficult to tuck away. The MAIN need I have is a way of managing contacts and making notes related to those contacts...and some way to send off an email when necessary. As I've been researching, I'm not seeing much along the lines of contact managment...is there software you can buy to do that?
By contact management, I mean ph #'s, emails, and being able to write in blurbs concerning conversations so I can refer back to those things each time I see a contact again and also generate a report on my sales activity. | I'm not trying to sell you on the EEE but check it out. The screen is only 7" and it weighs < 2 lbs. The HDD is compact flash (it only has an 8 GB capacity). I use a Blackberry and I *hate* how long it takes me to peck out e-mails using the letters on it. I guess I could buy a tiny keyboard for it but I like bigger screens. It's something to consider. Of course, if you're in the middle of nowhere then the EEE won't let you send out an e-mail because you'd need a WiFi hotspot to connect. The computer comes pre-loaded with all the basic apps you'd need.
That's the last I'm going to try to convince you of the product because I don't want to be responsible for guiding you wrong if this doesn't fit what you really need.  |