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PDAs Vs Laptops For Your Business Tool Of Choice

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For many small and large businesses equipping your staff or
workers with the right business tool does present a small
dilemma: should you go with a PDA or a Laptop? Examining the
features and benefits of both these technical marvels will help
you or your company make the right decision.


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PDAs Vs Laptops For Your Business Tool Of Choice
Copyright (c) 2007 Titus Hoskins
Bizware Magic
http://www.bizwaremagic.com



For many small and large businesses equipping your staff or
workers with the right business tool does present a small
dilemma: should you go with a PDA or a Laptop? Examining the
features and benefits of both these technical marvels will help
you or your company make the right decision.

First, you probably already know PDA stands for "Personal
Digital Assistant" and are handheld computers. Popular PDA brand
names include PalmOne, Tungsten and BlackBerry. Although these
devices are small and fit in the palm of your hand, they can
perform a whole range of functions including calculator, clock,
calendar, web browser, send and receive e-mails, typewriter, word
processor, video camera and even GPS (Global Positioning
System).

Newer models now come with color screens and can also be used as
a mobile or cell phone. Apple has recently introduced the iPhone
which will offer many of the above features accessible via a
touchscreen. It will have an OS X system and many advanced
features that will revolutionize the PDA market. According to
Apple the iPhone will be available in Mid-2007.

PDAs are convenient, multi-functional and very easy to carry
around. They are great business tools for working in the field or
on the factory floor. A virtual office in the palm of your hand.
Many professionals become "addicted" to their PDAs and
couldn't imagine work or life without a PalmOne or a
BlackBerry!

However, while the small size of the PDA is its main advantage,
it also presents a major stumbling block. In an ageing workforce
or for those "digitally challenged", using or manipulating
those small buttons or touchscreens can be a problem. Many people
find using such small devices and small screens somewhat
troublesome to say the least.

Everything is at your fingertips but it feels like Lilliput or
Land Of The Giants revisited. Dialing numbers on a small
touchscreen can be a hit or miss situation. Organizing a company
spreadsheet on a minute 2 inch screen is a gigantic task (pardon
the pun). PDAs are just too small for some workers. While not
exactly its Achilles heel, it is something every manager or boss
must consider.

Thus we come the next business tool that should be on your list:
the business laptop. Basically, a laptop will give you most of
the functions of a PDA in a larger package. And if your laptop
comes with a VOIP phone just about all the functions can be
preformed on a laptop instead of a PDA.

A laptop will give you a much larger screen for all those
spreadsheets and diagrams, not to mention any video presentation
will go over better on a laptop. Laptops usually come with more
robust options and a larger storage space than PDAs. A regular
size keyboard on a laptop will make word processing, typing and
sending e-mails much, much easier. It is something you must
consider.

With the recent developments of the Intel Duo core processors and
the new Windows Vista operating system, laptops are becoming more
powerful and more lightweight. Laptop batteries can now last the
full business day or until the next re-charging without any
interruption in function or service.

A laptop offers all this convenience in a larger package and
makes for an excellent business tool for any company or home
office. Laptops are usually more expensive than PDAs but this
price gap is narrowing as laptop prices have fallen dramatically
in the last couple of years.

What you really have to ask: "Does size matter to you?"

If you or your workers can easily use the small touchscreens and
buttons on a PDA than that may be your business tool of choice.
However, if these small screens present a problem, then a
lightweight laptop should be considered as your next choice.

Of course, companies with unlimited resources can equip their
workers with both a PDA and a Laptop; making the whole argument
rather moot. However, most of us are not coming from this vantage
point so you should let size be your deciding factor. This is one
case where size comes before form or function in determining your
business tool of choice.




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The author is a full-time online marketer who has numerous
niche websites, including one on business marketing tools.
For the latest and most effective web marketing tools try:
Internet Marketing Tools (http://www.bizwaremagic.com)
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Free Cell Phone (http://bizwaremagic.com/Free_Cell_Phone.htm)

Copyright © 2007 Titus Hoskins. This article may be
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