palmtop
[′päm‚täp] (computer science)
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
palmtop
(computer)(Or "pocket computer", "Hand-held Personal
Computer", H/PC) A small general-purpose, programmable,
battery-powered computer cabable of handling both numbers and
text (in contrast to most pocket calculators) which can be
operated comfortably while held in one hand. A palmtop is
usually loaded with an operating system such as Windows CE. Data can be transferred between the palmtop and a
desktop PC.
A palmtop is very similar to a Personal Digital Assistant though a palmptop may have a larger keyboard and more RAM and is possibly more general purpose in concept, if not in practise.
The Psion Organiser is one of the best known examples.
A palmtop is very similar to a Personal Digital Assistant though a palmptop may have a larger keyboard and more RAM and is possibly more general purpose in concept, if not in practise.
The Psion Organiser is one of the best known examples.
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palmtop
An earlier computer small enough to hold in one hand and operate with the other. Also called a "handtop," palmtops had small keyboards or specialized keypads tailored to specific industries. General-purpose palmtops were never widely used, but they were resurrected in the form of smartphones and tablets. See subnotebook, netbook, tablet and smartphone. |
| A General-Purpose Palmtop |
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| This IBM palmtop harks back to the days of Intel 486 CPUs in the early 1990s. Weighing less than a pound and a half, the CompactFlash card used for storage is shown half out of the slot. (Image courtesy of SanDisk Corporation, www.sandisk.com) |
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