Symbol MC50 Enterprise Digital Assistant

Advantages: Lots and lots of features, light, durable, easy to use (once you know how).
Disadvantages: Can be fiddly, menu's are not always easy to use.

...This is a mobile e-mail experience which many of us have only ever dreamt of. Forget using your fiddly little mobile phone keypad the iPAQ 914c has a full "QWERTY" keyboard that obviously makes text entry extremely fast and efficient. Scrolling through e-mails is made easy with a "3-way" track wheel which has a versatility rivaling the trackpad on many laptops. The iPAQ 914c is compatible with a variety of applications on/offline and when you're driving (especially helpful in a country where holding a phone whilst driving is illegal) you can have your email read aloud and reply without typing a word. It is possible to make calls and surf the web in a variety of countries around the world using 3G and Quad-band wireless technology. The iPAQ 914c performs assisted GPS and even hap Google Maps built in for easy route planning. Using... Read review

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Advantages: Fast and cheaper than others
Disadvantages: can always be cheaper

.... This is a serious buy, its not that much slower than enterprise hard drives like raptors. Raptors spin faster (10k rpm vs 7.2k rpm) and have lower latency but these benefits hardly show up to the average user at home and the drawbacks of much less HD capacity (36gb for the price of one of these western digital 500gb HDs) and also the running temp and noise of raptors are enough to warrent a purchase of the WD 500gb hard drive over any Raptor. Seeing as raptors are out of the Question (in my own opinion, although others will agree with me) you could go for something cheaper, but like i said, as you go down in price the value goes down a lot. For about 15 pounds less you end up with much slowers drives that dont have much capacity. These drives deserve an award for such performance price ratio as well as capacity price ratio.... Read review

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Advantages: Bread and butter, bog standard box, predictable and easy to deploy
Disadvantages: Not the lowest price for specification

...hangs together rather nicely, and you don't expect any surprises. It supports IBM's own system management software, all of which is designed to assist deployment in an enterprise (big business) environment. Now, if you were the manager of several thousand desktop PCs, and you wanted to sleep at nights, which system would you want to deploy; the latest whizz-bang kit, with countless variations and flavours, each of which required individual setting up, or an anonymous 'bread and butter' machine which did it's job day in, day out (I rest my case) In summary, well up to office tasks, but of limited interest to home users, but nonetheless well built, and will give many years faithful service. My previous comparisons between IBM kit in general and Volvo remain unchallenged, it's capable, even a little sporty on occasions, but above all safe.... Read review

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