thanatoid wrote in
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The idea makes sense,
it's just pointless because it's slow and easily broken. It
is great on PDA's where the OS always runs, but a hardware
button switches the machine on and off like a light.

Let's not even get into all that portable ****. When I leave the
house, I put on a watch, a pen (AKA biro), Sharpie, and little
plastic cutter knife in one pocket, my wallet in the other, and
that's it.


I quit with PDA's. But the old Psion Organiser II XP is vital for me often
enough. Run logs, best calculator ever (despite lacking the odd function),
and so it goes... It's so basic, but so effective that explorers and aircraft
carriers still use them routinely, I read somewhere.. No-one's beaten them
yet, after 25 YEARS.