My Class-A Spouse Gets a Cheap Thrill
Written: Jan 04 '00 (Updated Jun 19 '00)
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Pros: Inexpensive, does all that an organization person wants
Cons: Doesn't have all the slots for additional plug-ins
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| counsel's Full Review: Palm IIIe Personal Organizer |
As of Christmas Day, my wife became a proud owner of a Palm IIIe. This came about mainly because of the great love her husband has for her (Demonstrated by the Difficult Deferral of DVD Devices he Drastically Desired), but also because the IIIe was made for people like her - Class A - type organization wiz kids who aren't interested in a multi-slotted Palm Smorgasbord, but who would really prefer an alternative to her Dilbert Day Runner notebook.
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Really, I'm not kidding - she loved it. As much as I wanted a DVD player or a Dolby Home Theater receiver, no way would tears well up in my eyes if I pulled off the pretty paper and saw one of those inside. Hers did. Is that a class A or what?
And me - I liked the IIIe because it was - well, cheap, especially compared to the Palm IIIx, V and Palm VII. It had the same hi-def screen that the Palm V boasts, with two meg of memory, the HotSync cradle and the desktop software for a really good price - I got it at Best Buy for $159.00, just one week before Christmas - no kidding.
We got started a little backward - the booklet says to install the desktop Palm software into your computer first thing, make some entries and then do a HotSync (moving all your entries to the handheld device, and from the handheld to the computer, where entries don't match) before anything else. She was off in the corner moving entries from her Dilbert book into the handheld as soon as she could gracefully get away.
Not that I blame her. That Graffiti software on the handheld is pretty snazzy - she put the little stick-um label with the recommended Graffiti symbols on the lid of the handheld so she could start practicing her scrawling right away. The software takes her handwritten letters and uses some OCR magic to recognize it and change it into characters to be entered wherever she's entering stuff at the moment. Also, the scheduler gives her daily, weekly, monthly or yearly views, accepts single or repetitive events, and will alarm her when something's coming up.
Hmm - I think I'll enter my birthday. Set the alarm for three days prior, too. But I digress.
Her address lists are lengthy, so she did decide to save those entries for the desktop software - it's easier to use the computer keyboard for extended entries. And there's a memo section that can be organized and indexed every way from Sunday.
The owner's handbook that comes with this Palm is overkill; you can find everything you need to learn with this book without buying third party stuff, in my opinion. If you think you need something extra, O'Reilly has a good book out on the Palm OS, available at Fatbrain.com or any decent bookstore.
Is she still happy with her Palm Pilot? You betcha. Am I gonna get to spend my Epinions bucks on a DVD player? I dunno yet - stay tuned.
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 159.95
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Member: Dwight
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