Sure, it sounds like a good idea. Personally, I
wouldn't mind a trial run of it. However, most people
need to have some sort of stuff on their desk, in
dead-tree format, be it manuals or a Dilbert book.
I don't see this promoting that, obviously. It
could work for a little while, but people would get
fed up really fast with that.
I went out and bought an HP Jornada 400 series
(don't remember the exact number) PDA a few years
back, because it played MP3s, had a CF slot, and had
a color screen (and solitare... mmmm....). Anyways,
about 3 weeks later of using it lightly, the
speaker stopped working, the battery life slowly
declined, and the screen was hideously scratched
after I BABIED the thing - I had just spent $400
on it! I took it back to Orifice Depot and got
a Cassiopeia E-100 - same features, lighter, smaller,
$100 less! Worked fine, until I sold it on eBay to
a gentleman in Australia.
I purchased a (used) Powerbook 5200c a long time
ago, and it arrived with 8mb. The people claimed
that they shipped it with 24mb, so did the website
that I bought it from. After beginning a
disassembly of the machine, I was stuck, so I called
Apple tech support. Even though my machine was
way out of warranty and I had probably just voided
whatever was left anyhow, the tech I got was nice
enough to walk me through getting at the RAM slot. It turned out that the RAM had fallen
out and was rattling around inside the machine!
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Sure, it sounds like a good idea. Personally, I wouldn't mind a trial run of it. However, most people need to have some sort of stuff on their desk, in dead-tree format, be it manuals or a Dilbert book. I don't see this promoting that, obviously. It could work for a little while, but people would get fed up really fast with that.
I went out and bought an HP Jornada 400 series (don't remember the exact number) PDA a few years back, because it played MP3s, had a CF slot, and had a color screen (and solitare... mmmm....). Anyways, about 3 weeks later of using it lightly, the speaker stopped working, the battery life slowly declined, and the screen was hideously scratched after I BABIED the thing - I had just spent $400 on it! I took it back to Orifice Depot and got a Cassiopeia E-100 - same features, lighter, smaller, $100 less! Worked fine, until I sold it on eBay to a gentleman in Australia.
I purchased a (used) Powerbook 5200c a long time ago, and it arrived with 8mb. The people claimed that they shipped it with 24mb, so did the website that I bought it from. After beginning a disassembly of the machine, I was stuck, so I called Apple tech support. Even though my machine was way out of warranty and I had probably just voided whatever was left anyhow, the tech I got was nice enough to walk me through getting at the RAM slot. It turned out that the RAM had fallen out and was rattling around inside the machine!