Clie or Laptop?

[-JR-]

Thinking of using only Centrino laptop -- no PDA.

I take notes faster on steno pad than on CLIE. Love my T68i phone, on which I have important contact phone numbers and calendar views sync'd with Outlook. Can use GPRS w/ T68i and laptop bluetooth for email and web browsing. Think I'd love having just one inbox.

Am I crazy?

[fjl307]

Use both, they'd be great together :)

[jerryc98]

Me TOO...

I have a NX70 and a Sony FXA49 notebook:D:D

[sindu]

Sony T655 and IBM X30 with Nokia 6100 and SE T68i.

[ksjenkins]

I'm wanting to leave my laptop at home soo bad. I travel a fair amount and lugging a 8 pound laptop everywhere is a royal pain. Next release of the Clie with more memory, wireless internet and the ability to do presentations, bye bye laptop. I'll use the laptop as my backup and hotsync conduit.

[swinter]

Originally posted by ksjenkins
I'm wanting to leave my laptop at home soo bad. I travel a fair amount and lugging a 8 pound laptop everywhere is a royal pain. Next release of the Clie with more memory, wireless internet and the ability to do presentations, bye bye laptop. I'll use the laptop as my backup and hotsync conduit.

gave up the laptop about two years ago now. travel only with PDA and portable keyboard. (and BT enabled cellphone) there is now MS hardware from Margi Presenter to do PowerPoint directly from the CLIE.

laptop is so 20th century.

[sindu]

Originally posted by swinter


gave up the laptop about two years ago now. travel only with PDA and portable keyboard. (and BT enabled cellphone) there is now MS hardware from Margi Presenter to do PowerPoint directly from the CLIE.

laptop is so 20th century.

Very tempting to do the same thing as you but I received about 60 e-mails a day and when I am on the road, the laptop would make reading and replying e-mail more efficient...I also don't want to strain my eyes reading spreadsheet and words.

[swinter]

Originally posted by sindu


Very tempting to do the same thing as you but I received about 60 e-mails a day and when I am on the road, the laptop would make reading and replying e-mail more efficient...I also don't want to strain my eyes reading spreadsheet and words.

I find the PDA perfectly good for sending and receiving emails. that was one of the principal reasons I switched to the CLIE: the hi res screen makes reading emails and documents much more comfortable than my previous Kyocera smartphone. and the ease of composing emails with the keyboard beats my T39, which also works in a pinch. I also like having an email program -- like snappemail or aileron -- that downloads just the headers first so I can triage the email.

but I would think that reading spreadsheets on a PDA would be more of a problem.

[orol]

the combination of clie & laptop (dell latitude c640 => only 5,4 pounds) makes life easier .. but editting some ms docs or spreadsheets is still not perfect ..
but for making notes with some drawings on the go and appling them later on, is great.. even with kb11 is not a laptop .. 14,1" tft screen makes a big difference ..

[Jag]

The combination of my NX60 and my Sony SRX99 are just great together. I could not imagine one without the other.

[jmg_NX21]

When my bro and I travel: He takes his TiPb and I take my Clie... it is a perfect combo...

I prefer the pocketness of my PDA's... he prefers the POWER to be used during flights, airport, and hotel room.

Later this year he will be traveling with the 17" AlPb

[nz007]

life without my NZ and SR laptop..............well i'd rather not think about it!

[Jake K]

Originally posted by fjl307
Use both, they'd be great together :)
Thats the whole point of a pda. To organize your life when your away from your computer of laptop.

[T1000X]

With a PDA like the NX70V (and soon to be modified KB11 keyboard), I really don't need a laptop. I use my NX70V as my audio player, movie player, organizer, and everything else except a blender.

[swinter]

just so. most work-related things you can do on the laptop you can now do on a PDA (even sync to the web to update your avantgo or similar program). the laptop's days (IMHO) are surely numbered.

[SB_Pete]

no way, what I want is a MAC 17" PB sized Tablet-PC with a DVD-burner, BT, WiFi, flash card reader, etc. to complement my Clie and, for me, replace my desktop.

I can see laptops replacing desktop PC's for most people eventually, but even there some will still want a fully modifiable workstation powerhouse. but my Clie will never totally replace my laptop. I have over 100gigs of media for one thing. And hey, by the time my Clie can handle that my laptop will be able to handle a few terabytes and, well, I could always use a dvd rip or two thousand. Bottom line is that as much as I love and depend on my Clie, I still need a base station.

I still prefer a big screen and a full size keyboard, its just that they dont fit in my pocket... and they never really will.

[r2d]

Can't live without one or the other. But if I really and unavoidably had to choose, I'd choose my laptop.

I use spreadsheets very extensively. As much as I love using PDAs, there is no way I'm gonna give up my laptop for a PDA and submit to working on teeny tiny spreadsheet day after day...

[A1CPete]

I don't see anything wrong with bringing both with you. It's not like the PDA would take up a whole lot of space in a pocket or in the laptop case.

[ErnieB]

PDA only.  I can't stand laptops--too heavy, too bulky, and a high theft item.

If I can't do it on my PDA, It'll just have to wait until I get back, or find someone who is willing to lug a laptop around.

[madmaxmedia]

I have just been considering this topic, and was going to post it when I saw this one...

For me, my CLIE and keyboard enable me to work without a laptop when I'm out of the office. Docs To Go, Shadow Outliner and some paper print-outs of bigger files are all I need. My laptop is pretty thin and light relatively speaking, but aren't worth lugging around anymore in my backpack.

What I would use for travel is a different issue though. I think I would still take my laptop on a business trip, in order to have easier access to emails, attachments, web browsing, etc. But I don't travel much right now, so...

Whether I'm home or on the road, I still want a full computer to go with my CLIE. At home I have my desktop so don't need a laptop. But if I'm on the road that changes, still want a laptop (if only in my hotel room.)

-Steve

[tpack]

Waiting for Margi to add MS support for Sony Clie (NX60 OS5). And patiently waiting dince last Nov. After that for most presentations PDA should be more than enought.

:D

tpack

[robrecht]

Originally posted by orol
.. but editting ... spreadsheets is still not perfect ..

This is the central issue for many of us. What I loved about the (now defunct) Handera 330 was the ability to view AND EDIT spreadseets in landscape mode on a VG screen. Have SONY VG screens fixed this yet?

I know there's a viewer but can I use and edit the spreadsheet in landscape mode?

Then I'd leave my beautiful 16" SONY laptop screen at home.

[nz007]

robrecht>>>>>>>>>> u got too much $$$$$

16" Laptop.........

[PDA gadgetfreak]

I use SJ30 daily. when I'm on day trips, I just take the PDA. Overnight trips or days in the office I take both PDA & laptop. Couldn't do without either of them!

[Spiral]

Depends how much pocketability/portability you need, that's a big issue.

As a high-school student, a laptop definately would be unwieldly.

[itsBob]

As much as I like my laptop, there are just some places it can't go. And my NR70 is always in my pocket. Always. That's the whole point of have a pda. Now if the screen were just a little bigger...

[Importluva]

I'm in college, and I own a laptop as my primary computer and of course my NX. I often go to the undergrad library to do research or just to study and write papers, and unhooking everything from my laptop is a pain. So I bring my NX instead. So much more convenient. (Does anyone know how to check to see how long a document will be when printed by the way?)

[nz007]

Originally posted by Importluva
I'm in college, and I own a laptop as my primary computer and of course my NX. I often go to the undergrad library to do research or just to study and write papers, and unhooking everything from my laptop is a pain. So I bring my NX instead. So much more convenient. (Does anyone know how to check to see how long a document will be when printed by the way?)


what you need is the new z1 laptop by sony.

it has wifi/bt and a 14" screen along with an optional double capacity battery (8 hours) and you really are mobile and truelly wireless!

[Eddy]

I travel for a living, can't afford to bring an entire notebook with me all the time, nor would I have any chance to use it while I travel so PDA will do for me while away from home. :D