It's late, and I have a meeting in something like 7 hours to talk about this subject, so I thought I might post a question here to see what my fellow Debian users think.
Given the WebPad from Cyrix (http://www.cyrix.com/html/emerging/index.htm), the Netwinder from Corel (http://www.corelcomputer.com/ and http://www.netwinder.org/ ) and some other interesting hardware and pro-Linux "stuff" out there: What would make a near-perfect mobil/palm-top/mini/whatever Linux device? For example 12.1" Reflective AMLCD Resistive touch screen (the reflective would make this hard, but...) StrongARM processor 32 Meg memory wireless ethernet PCMCIA support ? Audio IR Port? USB (eventually...) * * * (note lack of keyboard, mouse, hard drive, CD-ROM drive, etc etc... in this EXAMPLE) Would it be a standalone device? An X terminal? Some other form of graphic terminal? Would battery life win out over performance? Weight over size? Is a backlight important (as opposed to reflective) ? Does it need a drive of some sort? Would a CD-ROM/CD-R/CD-RW suffice (assuming some network connectivity) ? So, basically, I am wondering what a Debian Linux user would want in such a device, if such a device would be desirable at all. (I really do have a meeting about something along these lines in 7 hours, but I am posing the question for some projects we have coming up soon...) Thanks for any thoughts, ideas, suggestions, and non-flames... Dan Hugo ps I work for none of the companies I mentioned above, and this meeting is with no one from any of those companies.
