What do you call something that looks like a laptop but doesn't have softwares other than the word processor?

Question

My friend and I were talking about how we type faster than we handwrite. So we decided that we should bring our laptops to school next term. The thing is, bringing our laptops would be sort of heavy. My friend says she knows of this gadget that looks like a laptop, but doesn't do anything other than let you type in its word processor and has limited memory. So it lets you type and save what you type and you can save them in a memory card (or it has a USB port) but it doesn't do anything else. I've been trying to look for this thing EVERYWHERE. Online and offline and no one knows anything about it. Can anyone please tell me what this gadget is called so I can at least search it online? Thanks.

Answer 1

Such a product does not exist I am afraid to say. Your friend may however be thinking of a Tablet PC.

Tablet PCs are more compact than traditional laptops but they do have similar functionality. See this page for more information:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/tabletpc/default.mspx

Also your friend may have heard of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project that provides very inexpensive laptops with limited functionality to children in third world countries. These are not commercially available at the moment, nor ever likely to be. See:

http://laptop.media.mit.edu/

Answer 2

You can use the Palm wireless keyboard, save it in Palm or on the memory card, use the Palm software Document To Go to convert it to Word document.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPALM-3169WW-Palm-Wireless-Keyboard%2Fdp%2FB0003V577C%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fqid%3D1165047754%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Delectronics&tag=nqhp-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325

Answer 3

i call it a glorified typewriter and nothing else

Answer 4

crap. i dunno that. maybe it's a palmtop! or a cellphone that has word processing.