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The NEC MobilePro 900 comes very close to my idea of the ideal portable computer. It turns on instantly, is expandable, has two usb ports, and a nearly full-sized keyboard. Battery life is good at 8 hours. The downside is that it uses MS H/PC 2000, for which there don't seem to be that many applications, much less open source applications.

Another possibility is the HP Scout, a prototype Tablet PC. There is almost no info about the Scout on the web. I read about it while purusing the latest magazines on mobile computing. HP recently announced that they would be introducing a consumer-oriented Tablet later this year, which could be the final version of the Scout. It has an interesting pop-out keyboard. But it runs Windows XP and probably takes 5 minutes to boot.

posted by Bruce Wright at 10:28 PM #

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