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Hand-helds, plain and fancy

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The Handspring Visor Prism has a screen that renders 65,000 colors. If you need a small image display device this is it. Unlike traditional black and white PDAs, however, the Prism's battery pack must be recharged a couple times a week. Sony's Clie is designed to compete with the slim mat-aluminum Palm Vx, while offering a slot for Sony's proprietary Memory Stick. A later model will offer a color screen. For basic PDA functions, the Palm m100 remains the best deal.

Statistical Data Included, Hardware multiproduct review, Sony Clie (Personal digital assistant), Palm Vx (Hand-held data device), Palm M100 (Personal digital assistant), Handspring Visor Prism (Personal digital assistant)

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Mousetrap or Palmtop, the quest never ends

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Sony's $300 Clie PEG-T415 is a well-designed personal digital assistant that sets an industry standard for compactness and user appeal. The PDA is designed to accommodate a Memory Stick memory card of up to 64MB, a digital camera peripheral, or an audio adapter for playing MP3 files. The only drawback of this otherwise exemplary product is the poor resolution of its grayscale screen display.

Japan, Hardware single product review, Sony Corp., SNE, Sony CLie PEG-T415 (Personal digital assistant)

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4 laptops Lilliputians might like

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The slimest and lightest laptop computers available are evaluated in this lineup. The Apple iBook, the WinBook X1, the Fujitsu LifeBook S-4546 and the NEC Versa TXi. They range in price from $1,800 to $3,300 and all have negative and positive aspects ranging from short battery life to a clear LCD display.

Product description/specification, Pentium III-based notebook, Pentium III based notebooks, Fujitsu LifeBook S-4546 (Pentium III-based notebook), Apple iBook (PowerPC-based notebook), NEC Versa TXi (Pentium III-based notebook), WinBook X1 (Pentium III-based notebook)

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