On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:05:22AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
1. "Mini-laptop"
[snip requirements] You're facing the same dilemma as anyone who want's a pocketable computer and there is no universal solution yet. The possibilities as I see it are:- Handwriting recognition, makes for a very compact device but isn't usually very fast and needs some effort to get used to it. Built in tiny keyboard like the Treo 650, a bit bulkier and you certainly can't 'touch type' on it. On screen keyboard, used by some PDAs and tablet computers, not a very good solution I don't think. The really small end of real laptops. The Sharp Zaurus is of course the classic Linux PDA.
2. Headless and handless (and legless -- just a tube up the bum)
[snip requirements again] Anything specifically as you describe will be horribly expensive I suspect because it's so specialised. Use laptops is probably the most sensible approach. -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."