When your laptop always runs out of juice in a couple of hours and all you need is to take notes, it’s time to hunt on the web for a portable word processor.

Overall, the device is a bit like some kind of odd (yet attractive) hybrid between a regular laptop computer and a personal digital assistant. I was prepared for that, since that’s about what the device sounded like in all the descriptions I’d read.

Anne C narrates how she went about searching for and using this forgotten machine.