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I hope you noticed that in our last issue we compared five super hubs. Do you know of any other weekly newspaper that can compare that kind of sophisticated product? Just between us, I have to admit that I have not personally had any experience installing and maintaining super hubs. And I don't know about you, but I am really impressed that we've got people working here at InfoWorld who know how to evaluate these things.
On a subject I do have personal experience with, this week we are publishing our first comparison of personal digital assistants. Regular readers know that I have been struggling with the Newton MessagePad to see if I can make it a useful extension of my computing life. In part, I've been conducting this ongoing struggle because I believe in the vision of personal digital assistants--devices that are truly mobile and personally useful.
But the Newton has been a struggle. I use it as a digital phone book. That's nice, but the Sharp and Hewlett-Packard products also work fine as phone books. I've only just gotten the software that will let me carry my schedule around in the Newton, but have not had a chance to actually use it. And Apple's efforts to get software developers to automatically synchronize data with the Newton have been disappointing so far. In fact, I have to put so much work into setting up the synchronization that I...