>>Extensive use of a keyboard will soak up battery power like mad. I nearly drained mine in two days when I was on an off site trip.<<<br><br>Is this one of the folding keyboards? I've used the "Gotype!" keyboard from LandWare (http://www.landware.com/gotype/index.html) on trips, and often for almost two years on the subway, and I really didn't notice much difference in battery life. I prefer the clamshell design to the folding design anyway- easier to use on laps, in bed, whatever where there's no hard flat surface.<br><br>I was given a used PalmV that I never really used, and that's part of the reason why... although it's lighter and smaller, I'd have to replace the keyboard, the cradles, the travel charger, the cases... peripherals can run into money, and if I had done all that, it would all be obsolete again now.<br>