Parker is the best, inexpensive pen by far. I am rarely without mine. The most important quality is that they write the first time you set pen to paper, and they don't bleed. There is nothing more frustrating than to want to write and have nothing happen.
For drawing with permanent ink, nothing beats the Rapidograph refillable pens. All one needs is a bottle of ink, and you can write forever. The pen can be taken apart and cleaned whenever necessary. It's the pen used by R Crumb for his drawings.
I haven't been able to determine whether or not this unit allows use of an external folding keyboard. The two reasons I haven't bought the 280 is lack of an expansion slot and inability to use the external keyboard. At least one of those problems goes away with the 600.
With the keyboard, this unit comes very close to my ideal handheld computer. Taking notes in meetings, coding html, reading email and web browsing are what I use the computer for about 90 percent of the time. With this unit I can get rid of my Pocketmail device that I've used to check email remotely for about 4 years. I can also ditch my cell phone.
I just hope their release date doesn't suffer from oqoitis...
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Parker is the best, inexpensive pen by far. I am rarely without mine. The most important quality is that they write the first time you set pen to paper, and they don't bleed. There is nothing more frustrating than to want to write and have nothing happen.
For drawing with permanent ink, nothing beats the Rapidograph refillable pens. All one needs is a bottle of ink, and you can write forever. The pen can be taken apart and cleaned whenever necessary. It's the pen used by R Crumb for his drawings.
I haven't been able to determine whether or not this unit allows use of an external folding keyboard. The two reasons I haven't bought the 280 is lack of an expansion slot and inability to use the external keyboard. At least one of those problems goes away with the 600.
With the keyboard, this unit comes very close to my ideal handheld computer. Taking notes in meetings, coding html, reading email and web browsing are what I use the computer for about 90 percent of the time. With this unit I can get rid of my Pocketmail device that I've used to check email remotely for about 4 years. I can also ditch my cell phone.
I just hope their release date doesn't suffer from oqoitis...