PDA's

If you won't need to attach a keyboard (i.e. note taking in class) then you will get the most bang for your buck with a Palm Tungsten E. It is high resolution color screen, comes with 32mb RAM on board with a Secure Digital (postage stamp size memory module) slot. You can purchase SD cards up to 128mb. Great for medical drug/diagnoses/etc. software.

It retails for $199 and there is a $50 rebate at Circuit City (rebate may be available at other stores too) right now. Unbelievable price for a color PDA with so much memory. You do give up the cradle though and the ability to attach to a keyboard. You hot sync with your PC through a USB cable that comes with it.

I have a Dell Axim, 64 mb-- I love it.

beamer I hate to be a predictable northwesterner but avoid palmOS and take the advice of some of the people recommending the windows CE environment

I would like to think I am ok with computers and I have a Sony Clie. The size of the housing is nice, but any of the programs I use on the palm have problems interpreting data from ms apps (namely money, iexplorer, word, media player etc). moving something from a ms application to the palm os requires cumbersome third party software.

Another recommendation I would make is do not try to save money on storage space. Mine is only 8MB of base storage, and a 128MB memory stick. Some apps will only run on the base storage.

Hope this helps

z

Originally posted by suemom2kay

If you won't need to attach a keyboard (i.e. note taking in class) then you will get the most bang for your buck with a Palm Tungsten E. It is high resolution color screen, comes with 32mb RAM on board with a Secure Digital (postage stamp size memory module) slot. You can purchase SD cards up to 128mb. Great for medical drug/diagnoses/etc. software.

It retails for $199 and there is a $50 rebate at Circuit City (rebate may be available at other stores too) right now. Unbelievable price for a color PDA with so much memory. You do give up the cradle though and the ability to attach to a keyboard. You hot sync with your PC through a USB cable that comes with it.

There is a keyboard for the Tungsten E now. (Radio Shack has it for cheap, too)

It DOES have great memory.

Edited to add, there is more med software (and other software) available for the Palm OS. Tungsten E is also compatible with MS Word, Excel, etc.

I, too am interested in getting a PDA, Are all PDA's compatible with macs or only a select few?:roll

I still think the Sony Clie line is the best bang for the buck.

The SJ33 or the new TG35 have built in MP3 players for the library studying and have enough power for everything you need.