Casio Cassiopeia E-115

I am so glad I finally bought this device after so many months of scrutinising the competitors. I almost settled on the EM500 until a comparison of specs showed it to be virtually the same in look/effect but an inferior unit in grunt (only 16MB of internal RAM). EASE OF USE: The E115 is **very** easy to use -- a pulldown Start menu at the top left will get you in or out of any program instantly. The down side is there is no little 'x' at the top right to close your programs, and you can either live with them simply opening on top of each other, eventually slowing you down (or so I'm told), or ... more

Casio’s Cassiopeia E-115 will cost you about £420. It has a colour LCD screen which displays at 240x 320 pixels. So it's regulation size. The machine itself is a dull silver grey colour. At the bottom below the screen and around the buttons it has little perforations or dimples. Unfortunateley these make it look a bit like a dictaphone. The processor speed is 131 MHz. This is not bad for a thing this size, I think. A friend of mine has a Tiny desktop with the same speed and it works well enough too. The Cassiopeia of course has no hard disk and starts to slow when the 32 Mb RAM starts to ... more