Fantastic deal if you can find one cheap!

I got one of these for my wife to take to college and take notes or type papers up. I toyed around with it quite a bit and was very impressed. The keyboard is excellent and better than most laptop keyboards that I have used. The screen, while smallish, is very crisp and well defined; it is a very beautiful display and of exceedingly high quality. The device is excellent for someone who needs to do some serious high speed typing in the field but needs a small lightweight unit. It is smaller than a sheet of paper, less than an inch thick, and weighs about 3#/1kg which is much less than a typical college textbook. It appears to be quite rugged, and is well suited to being stuffed into a backpack.

As I am a Linux wizard, I was impressed with the MIPS microprocessor. If you ever grow tired of WindowsCE rest assured that you can run either NetBSD Unix or GNU/Linux on this small machine quite readily. If it were mine, I would run Debian Linux with the X-Window System on it, but for my wife, the WindowsCE is better suited to her college needs. (But someday, it will be mine, oh yes... muahaha)

Anyways, the IBM pointer stick thingy is actually pretty easy to use, the keyboard and screen are awesome. It has fantastic battery life ~ 12 hours, and its a great little machine. Originally going for about a thousand dollars, you can find these used for around a hundred or so nowadays. If you want something like I've described; i.e. a small light fast unit for mobile word processing, then its ideal, buy it and don't think twice. You won't be disappointed.