I Could’ve Had a V8
Remember that commercial for V-8 tomato juice where people knock themselves in the head and exclaimed I could’ve had a V8? Well I kind of feel that way about my purchase last December of a Palm TX. I’ve been using a PDA for several years and decided to upgrade my Palm M515 by purchasing the TX because of its built-in WiFi. Unfortunately it hasn’t worked out the way I had hoped.
Recently I came across information about netbooks. A netbook is a small version of a laptop computer. It pretty much works like a PDA, but makes it easier for Web surfing and e-mail because of a larger screen and full keyboard interface. When I got to looking at them I realized that I could’ve purchase one of those for a little more than what I spent on the Palm and gotten a much better and more usable portable computing device. Oh well — that’s the problem with ever-changing technology. Sometimes you think you are moving forward but in reality you are moving two steps back.
