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Great post! Thanks for the useful information.

There was a time when I was out in the field, flying around the country, and required constant use of a PDA. It came in handy for all the things you mentioned, plus, while waiting around with other business travellers at the airport, I would sometimes use it to give ad hoc demos of my company's products and services. So, I can see where the ROI would come into play in some instances. In my current postion, I get by just fine with a 100 page note pad, a cell phone, a laptop, and the ocassional use of a digital camera. My journada and ipaq are just collecting dust for now. My wife uses the palm pilot for her ob-gyn practice, storing patient history, scripts, and the physician's desk reference.

[George W. Bush]

My journada and ipaq are just collecting dust for now.

Strangely, it's my notebook computer which gathers dust while I use my desktop and my PDA.

This tells me that a Bluetooth-enabled TabletPC might be my next machine, ready to go on the road or sit on the couch with me.

I look for Tablet-format machines to really take off in the next few years when they break the $1000 price point. People are tired of being tied to a clunky desktop box and they're tired of having all that equipment cluttering up their desks.