[sdiy] Professional magazine for EMI manuf. ?

[Dave Magnuson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Arnold" <xyzzy at sysabend.org>
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:09:12AM -0000, Paul Maddox wrote:
>> Dave,
>>
>> > The only problem with web-based magazines is....  I don't have a 
>> > computer
>> in
>> > the bathroom.  That's where I read most of my magazines   :)
>>
>> get a laptop :-)
>
> Hrm.  Lets think about this.   Assumption 1.  Laptops get very warm
> Assumption 2.  You dont wear pants when occupied in the bathroom.   Anyone
> see where I'm headed with this train of thought? :-)
>
> Seriously tho,  I keep waiting for a cheap decent tablet-like PC with just
> enough power to view PDFs.  Imagine, all your schematics and magazines on 
> a
> small easy to carry around tolerable form-factor device.  Laptops are nice
> and all ( I have 4 of them for various tasks ) but still not as good a
> reading formfactor as a magazine/book...


I assume you mean something  like this:

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/tabletpc/

Performance-wise it fits somewhere between a palm pilot and a laptop. 
Unfortunately price-wise you could get much more power from an equally 
priced laptop

Dave