I decided to go for the Xda IIs. Jup shared his experience with it and I came to a conclusion that it meets my demands. I already asked Mark F. to buy one for me who’s probably at HK right now.

Now that I’m going to add a new member to my family of portables*, this post will serve as a guideline (to myself) on how I’ll be using it.

For school related stuff, it’ll be mostly used for taking notes in my math classes. Other than school, it’ll be used to take down reminders and appointments, and store all my contacts. When I’m on the go, I’ll use it as an HTML browser so I can read the million pages that I have bookmarked. The rest of the time, it’ll be treated as paperweight/phone.

I’m one hell of a lazy person so the only reason I’m still alive is that I automate a lot of things. I want it to be able to start my note-taking application everytime my math classes start (on-the-dot, no matter what). It should start with a new file named with the format <course_code>_<YYYY_MM_DD> stored in a folder with all my notes from school. If this was Linux, I would’ve placed a cron job that will start ViM with bash or PHP on the CLI. I’m not sure yet but I hope that Windows Mobile something has a native service like cron. I’d like it to turn off all alerting mechanisms when I come to class.

Everything (i.e. clock, calendar, notes and contacts) should be synced on my iPod, laptop and this PDA.

I’m anxious to use it but there is a small feeling of regret. Let’s hope that all goes well. Some people pointed out that PPCs are bloated. I can’t agree any less. I used to use a computer with a Pentium MMX CPU at 233MHz with 64MB of RAM. I got it to do a lot of cool stuff with it. This PDA has more juice than it but I feel that it’s “weak” and feeble compared to the desktop computers before. 10 year-old technology with size in mind still doesn’t justify it.

* I don’t give names to my computers. I just give the CPU’s core name appended with its clock speed. My iPod is just labeled jploh.

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