At 9″ x 6″ x 0.67″ and just 1.6 lbs, the Convergent MiniNote is fills a unique niche in the computing world, somewhere between a PDA and a TabletPC. It has an 8.4″ TFT screen with 800×600 resolution in either portrait or landscape mode. Running WinCE .NET on a StrongARM 206 MHz chip (like original iPaqs) and 64-128 megs of RAM, the MiniNote won’t run full Windows programs, but can certainly run all the latest PDA software. It has PCMCIA and USB Host expansion options for WiFi, keyboard, external hard-drive or optical drive (with appropriate drivers). Price is a very reasonable $750 – more expensive than most PDAs but loads cheaper (and probably more functional) than a Tablet PC running Windows XP.
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