Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Path: utzoo!lsuc!jimomura
From: jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura)
Subject: Re: Portfolio, HP-95, M-100 &
Organization: Consultant, Toronto
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 14:01:04 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.140104.10090@lsuc.on.ca>
References: <1991Jun9.152710.20556@lsuc.on.ca> <1991Jun11.013109.13539@eecs.nwu.edu> <1991Jun11.133517.22508@lsuc.on.ca> <1991Jun12.023215.23756@eecs.nwu.edu>

In article <1991Jun12.023215.23756@eecs.nwu.edu> kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman) writes:
>In article <1991Jun11.133517.22508@lsuc.on.ca> jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura) writes:
>>     Nice try Michael, but I didn't say that I "couldn't find any use
>>for [my] palmtop ... "  
>
>No, but what you did say was, "If you want something practical to get real 
>work done, go elsewhere."  My dad uses his to get real work done.  Just becuase
>you can't get any real work done is no reason to say that no one can.

     Well, yes I did say that, and it's actually ambiguous.  It hinges
on the word "practical."  You seem to want to interpret that as saying
"capable".  Ie, that the Portfolio and HP-95 are not CAPABLE of getting
real work done.  But if I had wanted to say CAPABLE, I would have said
CAPABLE.  I didn't.  I said practical.  Now, I will refer you to a
dictionary at this point because I don't have all that much time to
waste on this discussion.  But the word PRACTICAL is not necessarily
so extreme, ok?

>>I'm not at all impressed by the fact that your father "can do things
>>in an hour on the plane that used to take him all day."  All
>>that tells me is that he didn't have a notebook computer.
>
>I'm sorry.  Arn't you the guy who keeps harping about how people in the
>real world are not willing to carry around big bulky things?  Perhaps you
>should go back and read some of your old posts.  If you think that palmtops are
>too big to carry around all the time, then why are you suggesting notebook
>sized machines?
>
     Michael, I'm going to lay this out as simply as I can
for you because you can't seem to understand anything more
complex:

1.  In most cases, business people will not burden themselves
    unnecessarily.

2.  In cases where business people need to take something, they will
    do so.

3.  The functions of the CC/CPD/WPS capable products are not
    necessary 24 hours per day.  So the first inclination will
    be not to take something that requires more than negligible
    effort to carry.

4.  There are numerous CC/CPD products which are significantly
    smaller, so that they are better suited to most business people.

5.  In the case where WPS functions are needed, we are dealing
    with a substantially heavier usage wherein carrying a notebook
    computer is worth the extra bulk because it is even *easier*
    to use and more capable than a Portfolio or HP-95LX.

>>I see you're at an EDU site.  We'll hope
>>you learn to read better before you get into the work world. :-)
>
>By the way, you keep going on and on about how we will "see the light" as shown
>by Jim when we get out in the work world.  Speaking as someone who finished
>college six years ago, I was wondering, when should I expect the divine
>revalation?

     I have no idea.  For most people it doesn't take so long.
:-)



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