http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/08/22/technolust-you-done-me-wrong-palm-foleo-delayed/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:28:30 -0500 hourly 1 http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/08/22/technolust-you-done-me-wrong-palm-foleo-delayed/comment-page-1/#comment-381437 q335r49 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:58:34 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/08/22/technolust-you-done-me-wrong-palm-foleo-delayed/#comment-381437 I'm in the same boat -- no laptop, but I've been relying on my alphasmart dana and internet at work. There's really nothing wrong with the dana, it just doesn't give the illusion of talking to a REAL .... virtual person, like I am right now, walking into your home, as it were, shuffling my feet, preparing my soapbox. It's shear idiocy, maybe I'll spend these two months convincing myself that I don't need the foleo ... but the premise of not only having individual documents, but maybe advanced search functions, advanced file structures, wiki type organizations, and an enormous screen is too tantalizing. In the end, I know it won't help, but, you know, for me, data structures are like the blank, white case of a mac -- you just can't resist them, they're like crack. I’m in the same boat — no laptop, but I’ve been relying on my alphasmart dana and internet at work. There’s really nothing wrong with the dana, it just doesn’t give the illusion of talking to a REAL …. virtual person, like I am right now, walking into your home, as it were, shuffling my feet, preparing my soapbox. It’s shear idiocy, maybe I’ll spend these two months convincing myself that I don’t need the foleo … but the premise of not only having individual documents, but maybe advanced search functions, advanced file structures, wiki type organizations, and an enormous screen is too tantalizing. In the end, I know it won’t help, but, you know, for me, data structures are like the blank, white case of a mac — you just can’t resist them, they’re like crack.

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