HP Jornada vs. ASUS Eee

[MegalosSkylaki]

Anybody familiar with the older Jornada models that looked like a small laptop that had been sliced in in half widthwise to make a short n wide key-board, plus screen, clamshell ?

They used MS Pocket Office on a Windows for hand-helds OS or a CE OS==not Palm OS. Refurbs may be gotten for $200 -$250. Less than a lb.

The ASUS is also shrunk down and uses flash memory for a "hard-drive". and a custom-for-asus Xandros OS. Cost aropund $350 to $400, depending on whether it has a builtin low-rez (like cell-phone) camara. About 2 lbs.

MegalosSkylaki

PS. I am considering a Jornada for ultaportable cafe-internet use. Plus active synch to Computer.

[StealthyV]

I've been looking at the Eee PC from Asus, after considering a small Fujitsu; the price and portability is definately attractive.

the lack of "computing power" really isn't an issue in this case for me; I have a Mini-ITX EPIA-V 800mhz machine and it's perfectly capable at word processing, internet, multimedia, and streaming audio/video.

I've been looking for a wifi appliance for a while now, but budget constraints have all but limited my options to an XP-bundled piece of garbage from HP.

I'm not familiar with the Jornada (and I insist I'm not spamming this thread) but my vote definately goes for the Eee!

[MegalosSkylaki]

It is partly the MS PC for Handhelds 200 that is worrying me.

Also, the HP Jornada 728 --that looks like a mini laptop with a 76% of normal-size keyboard, was recently sold for about $200.

I figure I would wait for the 8Gb Asus Eee to come out. I figure the rumors of a 10" screen are not true, at least for now as ASUS must want to get as many to market as quickly as it can.

But the edition after tha, might have a 10" screen, so i figured I'd wait before plunking down $400.

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