Third party support is going pretty strong. The 8MB upgrade has been formally introduced, and several vendors are selling it in addition to Times2Tech. There are backlighting projects in the works, and there seems to be a never-ending supply of quality palmtop software being written. On the other hand, Educalc, one of the finest suppliers of palmtop and calculator products for the past 20 years, is going out of business real soon here. The recent announcement of the 620LX is a perfect example.
Battery life is everything.
If you want four hours of battery life, why not just buy a PC110 and get a machine capable of running a real operating system, like Linux or Windows 95. And if it works well, and fast, we'll at least have a solution for when our palmtops break and HP won't repair them. But still, an emulator running on a battery-hogging handheld with a huge footprint is not the same as elegantly slipping a 200LX out of your pocket, turning it on instantly, and checking the latitude and longitude of Montreal, for example. Imagine you're a secret agent on a mission to topple a corrupt government, for example. So you're hidden away in the baggage compartment of an jumbo jet, avoiding detection by the enemy, when all of a sudden the plane veers off course.