COMPAQ IPAQ H3635 POCKETPC.32 MB color hand-held computer Noun 1. hand-held computer - a portable battery-powered computer small enough to be carried in your pocket hand-held microcomputer portable computer - a personal computer that can easily be carried by hand Price: US$599 retail www.compaq.com/ipqw * The Good Opens those Microsoft (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, www.microsoft.com) The most successful and influential software company. Microsoft's software and Intel's hardware pioneered the PC and revolutionized the computer industry. attachments that come in the e-mail, like Excel A full-featured spreadsheet for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. It can link many spreadsheets for consolidation and provides a wide variety of business graphics and charts for creating presentation materials. spread sheets and Word documents. Lots of memory means big attachments are a snap. Files sent to a notebook (or similar hand-helds) via a wireless port arrive as regular Windows 2000 documents: no special software needed on the receiving end. * The Bad A bit slow on the uptake uptake /up·take/ (up´tak) absorption and incorporation of a substance by living tissue. up·take n. when writing with the stylus stylus: see pen. (1) A pen-shaped instrument that is used to "draw" images or select from menus. Styli (the plural of stylus, pronounced "sty-lye") come with handheld devices that have touch screens, such as PDAs and video games. . Better to get the mini-keyboard option. An integrated cover would have been better than the separate carrying case. * Who Should Buy Engineers, finance people and execs who work with popular format software and need tons of data in meetings or on the road. Expensive, but it delivers. * Who Should Not If you're aren't missing Windows-centered functionality by now, you won't pick up much advantage with the iPaq. |
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