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Well, Netpad is the best I've heard in this thread, but I'm partial to handtop, so I'll throw it out there. It beats palmtop because it avoids confusion with Palm and with the HP200-like platforms last known as palmtops. It's also more accurate; a Palm (or other typical PDA) does get held in your palm, but an IT (or Pandora/200LX/etc.) doesn't really. And it does a pretty decent job of conveying the laptopiness, i.e. it's a general-purpose computer. Of course, I am wont to characterize it more brutishly as "a pocketable laptop", with way too many syllables.

Originally Posted by pycage View Post
Pocket UMPC (to distinguish from those bricks running that last remaining CP/M derivative from Redmond).
In all fairness, NT is not really a CP/M derivative; it's a crock unto itself, but not that one. (And unless I'm quite mistaken, Origami/UMPC was all about NT5.1 (and later).)
Originally Posted by qgil View Post
Considering the amount of time people have these tiny devices in their hands and the variety of uses they make of it, I tend to see them evolving more as a 'friend' or even an 'alter ego'.
That's more or less the whole PDA concept, which (at present) the tablets aren't so hot at. Fortunately, I don't want a friend/alter ego/assistant; I want a workbench for tinkering, and that way the N800 makes me quite happy.
 

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