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Originally Posted by Kati Compton
If it were $700 and ran all my PPC apps I might be getting out my credit card...  |
Oh, ya!! Me too. :wink:
Psion seemed to be pretty clear on this one. While they certainly don't mind consumers buying this they are focusing their marketing efforts completely on corporations. The Netbook Pro is a purpose built device that is ready to work with an enterprise CRM solution. There are a few things with the OS like Pocket On-Schedule but Psion does not put any marketing effort toward general consumers that I have seen.
IT departments can cost justify the steep price on these units, compared to a notebook, because they are easier to administer. The critical info can be backed up to the Flash memory and a frozen unit only take a hard-reset and reinstate from Flash. That is WAY easier and quicker that loading as OS from CD and installing all of the programs on a laptop.
I wish the price was MUCH lower as well. With Psion considering the Windows Mobile OS maybe we WILL see a consumer type device from them again that will be HPC format AND will run all of our PPC apps. (I did suggest it to them, but...) THAT would be nice.