For those of you who have way too much paperwork to carry round, but no strength or space in you bag to carry it, what can you do? - Well my preferred option was a Samsung Q1 Ultra. Its a full Windows Vista PC, but very tiny - the screen is 7". This makes it big enough to clearly see a document on screen and make note on it with the pen, but easily small enough to carry round on most days.
Sadly Vista runs like an asthmatic dog on it, and the Samsung site gets no marks at all for having a really bad flash site, pop up menus and just about every other sin imaginable. However if you take the hard disk shuffling off, its definitely useable for day to day, but not as a main PC running heavy duty applications.
The lack of keyboard doesn't bother me, but if you want this, then look elsewhere. I use the pen mostly, the split thumb keyboard occasionally, and the decidedly bizarre dial keys (an on screen touch keyboard split into two quarter circles extruding from the bottom corners for want of a better description) only to try and remember to turn them back off.
All in all its a great toy, the screen resolution on that size looks stunning, and I am always surrounded by jealous cooing tech guys whenever I put it on the table at meetings.
Other options are the Asus EeePC, and the HTC touch amongst an ever increasing variety of options. For more on the Q1 Ultra, try PC World
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