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The vision of the AMIGOS project is [1]:

"...to make the mobile office a reality without making a mobile computer more complicated to use than a stationary computer on a desk."

This could also be stated as [24]:

"...mobile computers should be a substitute for the stationary computer at their office."

In terms of computing power this implicates that as a minimum the mobile computers should be comparable to the desktops which (in my view) rules out PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) and most palmtops, and leaves me with notebooks (or laptops). In other words, I only wish to support the types of mobile computers that can be roughly characterized as portable workstations in [41]. I find the notebooks you can buy today to be adequate,^2.3 see Table 2.1.

Table 2.1: Memory/CPU

Harddisk	Memory	Machine (CPU)
$>$1 Gb	100 Mb	Alpha or vector proc.
1 Gb	32 Mb	High-end Pentium Desktop
1 Gb	16 Mb	High-end Pentium Notebook
500 Mb	16 Mb	High-end i486 Notebook (or desktop)
250 Mb	8 Mb	Low-end i486 Notebook (or desktop) High-end i386
150 Mb	8 Mb	High-end i486 Subnotebook
60 Mb	4 Mb	Low-end i386 Subnotebook
20 Mb	2 Mb	i186 Subnotebook
-	2 Mb	i186 Palmtop (or PDA)

(adapted from [2])

Footnotes

... adequate,^2.3

In terms of computing power; the question of value for money is always debatable!

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