Handwriting recognition is accurate and fast. Your information is always with you. They're relatively inexpensive. Data can be entered on the palmtop, on your desktop, or beamed between palmtops.
Some people are either at home or work, have a desktop at both, and are never on the road.
Others travel constantly and are tired of carrying a laptop. Palmtops can, of course, remind you of phone numbers, errands to run, or appointments. They can also help you remember where you are in a project, capture deep thoughts, prioritize tasks, and generally avoid piles of paper notes. Some also have a color screen, expansion slot, digital voice recorder, email and wireless capability, etc. A weakness of palmtops is that all manufacturers are going with different expansion slots .