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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: PC Week's Page One (2/4/91) article on Jaguar.
Summary: and the Portfolio?
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.131307.226@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 7 Feb 91 13:13:07 GMT
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In article <1991Feb07.011231.857@usenet@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> smithj@jacobs.cs.orst.edu (Jeremy Smith) writes:
>PC Week _8_ #5 p1 2/4/91
>
>HP, Lotus Pact To Put 1-2-3 in Palm-Sized PC by Marc Ferranti.
>     "This is the first true hand-held DOS computer," according to one
>source who has seen the machine.  "With the Poqet PC, you can't hold it
>in your hand and type, and [it] offers a poor subset of DOS.  This

I note that the ad positions the Jaguar against the Poquet without
mentioning the Portfolio.  Although it may be a classier machine, I find
that the Pofo (as someone here recently dubbed it) offers me handy
builtin spreadsheet functionality at a much lower cost.  I can enter
data when I travel and upload to a desktop when I get to my office, or
do spreadsheet calculations at meetings, etc.

Not knocking HP's new machine, but to talk about economy and ignore
Atari at the same time is kind of inconsistent.


-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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