[sdiy] Professional magazine for EMI manuf. ?

[james]

you can also view pdf's on palm pilots.... thats a lot cheaper than a 
laptop - but a pretty small screen if you're going to be looking at 
schematics.



On Jan 7, 2005, at 3:20 PM, Dave Magnuson wrote:

>
> ----- 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
>
>