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Upon returning from break, I began investigating PDA-type options, including the Apple Newton MessagePad 2000 and the new handled PCs that run a light version of Windows 95 dubbed Windows CE. These WinCE machines cost about $1,000 and run "pocket" versions of popular Microsoft software such as Word and Schedule...
Both the eMate 300 mobile computer, left, which is targeted at students, and the business-focused MessagePad 2000 are the kind of affordable computers that may one day replace bulky desktop machines. Each uses a modified version of Apple's Newton software and offers easy hookups to E-mail, the Internet and applications like spreadsheets and word processing. The eMate has a keyboard designed for kids' clumsy fingers and a special stylus that lets them draw and enter data by "writing" on the screen. And though Apple has packed both new devices with the latest technology, it hopes the machines...
...despite their initial curiosity about the MessagePad, students who tried the computer at the Coop last weekend left with lukewarm opinions...
...recent campus demonstration of the machine, he said, students were impressed with the MessagePad--but not impressed enough...
...MessagePad is not designed for students," he said. "That's the bottom line...