Alphasmart 3000 IR

Advantages: Sturdy, many features
Disadvantages: (nearly) outdated, powersaving options

...My Omnibook 3000 has the following quickspecs: Pentium 200 MMX, 512 k. 80 MB EDO RAM. 3,2 GB HDD. 13,3'' TFT. Ports: ECP, Parallel, D-SUB, IrDA, PS/2, USB, 32-BIT Cardbus. Audio (Crystal): line ind, microphone, speaker out. The PC has everything that you'll find in a PII-system - exept a PII processor. In other words it has been state-of-the-art, when the PC was launched. That means that today the only new thing you might want to have is a firewire-port, and who needs that, after all? The PC itself is as far as sturdiness is conserned probably the best HP ever made - The only thing I can compare it to is a IBM PC, which everyone knows is the highest quality. The 13,3'' screen makes 1024x768 resolution possible at 16 bit colors (NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD, 2 MB). It is quite bright, so you might want to install a non-HP driver, which... Read review

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Advantages: Very robust and sturdy case
Disadvantages: A little slow when compared to newer laptops

...The Panasonic CF-28 comes in many flavourers, the CF-28 I use has the following specification. RAM: 512MB CPU: Pentium III Mobile 800 MHz Hard Disk: 512 GB Operating System: Windows 2000 Weight: 3.6Kg Physical Characteristics Left Hand Size CD and Floppy Disk Drive Module Bay. Back Serial Port, Parallel Port, External Video, Port Replicator, Mic and Headphones sockets, Single USB port, Keyboard or Mouse PS2 port. Right Hand Size Power Inlet, IR Port, Type 3 PCMCIA Port, Modem Connector, Network Connector Underneath Removable Hard Disk Drive, Battery These CF-28’s come with the touch screen option install and the touch sensitive glide pad. The normal glide pad works using the electrical charge of the person’s finger and will not work when tried with an inanimate object. The touch screen works... Read review

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Advantages: Small, light, usefull
Disadvantages: Input system not accurate

...Nice bit of kit. Fast, long battery life, full of features, ir port, had writting reconision. What more could you want? The Palm III is a very robust pda, sutible for almost any situation. It can be used with most modem ir enabled phones to surf the net, or used for basic diary functions. The input system is very wuick and easy to master, although it isnt very accurate which means you will forever be deleting characters. Alternatly, you can enter information via the on screen keyboard, but this can be very slow.... Read review

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