Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Off topic: Palm Pilot
From: pcb@iac.co.jp (Paul C. Brodek)
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 12:57:17 +0900

I've played with all three, and have been using Librettos extensively
for about 2 years now.  The Libretto beats the Pilot and any Win CE
machine hands-down in terms of performance (it is a fully functional
PC), but is without a doubt bigger and heavier.  I tried both  the
Pilot and WinCE (a Velo) hoping they could substitute for the Libretto
on days I didn't want to lug the Libretto around, but for me they just
don't do the job.

Toshiba has discontinued the Libretto 50CT, and it is being sold for
US $599-699 right now.  That makes it competitive with WinCE machines,
but still more than the Pilot.

There is a fairly active Libretto User Group (yet another LUG?).

PB

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 00:02:56 -0700, "Bryan Willman"
<bryanwi@seanet.com> wrote:

>Toshiba makes a machine called the Libretto,
>latest model is the 100ct.  Librettos are bigger
>than pilots, win ce machines, Sharp Zarus, etc.
>But - they are full windows computers.  Keyboard
>is small but workable.  Run normal apps.
>
>Much more money than a pilot.
>
>bmw

Paul C. Brodek
Kobe, Japan
pcb@iac.co.jp