Cathena: the instant-on Windows CE laptop
It sure looks like a regular laptop, but the Cathena is definitely not a regular laptop, especially since it runs on Windows CE rather than on the full Windows OS. It's sort of like that movie Big, just with a PDA that's woken up in the body of a laptop instead of some forgotten child actor waking up in Tom Hanks's body (and it's also not a movie, but whatever). The specs won't blow you out of the water (64MB of ROM, 128MB of RAM, a 12.1-inch LCD screen, 802.11b WiFi, and a CompactFlash memory card slot—but NO hard drive), but you do get an instant-on laptop that weighs under 3 pounds and that'll work just fine for taking notes, sending emails, instant messaging, and accessing the web. We'd be digging on this way more were it not for the semi-outrageous list price of $799, but we absolutely want someone to investigate a version that runs on the Palm OS (and yes, we're very aware of the AlphaSmart).
[Thanks, Tom]
