Re: [NTLK] One great thing about the eMate

hi Richard

I've been following up your advice and as you said finding a NEC
MobilePro 700 is going to be a bit of a wait. But I have found this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Packard-Bell-EasyMate-770-Windows-CE-Small-
Laptop_W0QQitemZ230155763243QQihZ013QQcategoryZ177QQtcZphotoQQrdZ1QQcmdZ
ViewItem

Do you know if this has the same screen as the MobilePro 700? if so
I'll go for it.

Thanks

John

On 11 Jul 2007, at 23:38, Richard Plume wrote:

> on 11/7/2007 5:31 PM, John Derbyshire at johnderbyshire@ntlworld.com
> wrote:
>
>>
>> One great thing about the eMate is that it's the only laptop that's
>> usable in bright sunlight (at least in my experience). With the
>> backlight off the eMate's reflective screen is perfectly clear when
>> facing into the sunlight - I like to write outside in the summer (not
>> that summer has started yet in England, we've had the wettest June on
>> record, and July's no better so far). This is possible with the eMate
>> but not with a a Zenith laptop, an iBook, or a MacBook. anyone else
>> found a laptop that is usable in sunlight?
>>
> You might look at the NEC MobilePro 700 - greyscale screen, large
> touch-typeable keyboard, comes in 8,16 or 32-meg versions, uses common
> CF
> cards for storage (which can be read by any Windows/Mac computer,
> unlike
> Newton linear PCMCIA cards) and runs on 2 AA batteries. Built-in
> subsets of
> Word, Excel, InBox, etc.
>
> It runs Windows CE, which may or may not be your cup of tea. They
> don't
> make them anymore (like the eMate) but they do show up occasionaly on
> eBay
> for under $100US.
>
> Rick
>
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