It has a touch-screen, is compact, and is generally more accepted in a scholarly setting than a notebook. Besides, the Jornada is discontinued, finding a cheapo on eBay is a sinch. And I like tinkering with things. And it can run Linux fairly well.
It looks like something I could take apart and have fun with.
You're right, it pretty much is a smaller notebook. I just could never get used to holding one of those palm-sized things in one hand and tap with the other. I need a keyboard. Haha, but to each his own, eh?
Anyway, as it is more relevent than my discussion of Handhelds, I found this site translated from Spanish via Google.
http://translate.google.com/translat...ASCII&oe=ASCII
It's got plenty of games and apps for you to toy around with.
Whenever you find something you wanna download, just click on the Globe with the mouse thing a the bottom of the page. It'll take you to the proper page.
I recommend Pocket TV, it allows you to play .mpg format video.