To begin with, I am writing this review on my OmniGo. I havn't purchased
the connectivity pack, and have no real intention of doing so anytime
soon. With Clip&Go, I finally have a convenient way of getting info back
and forth from my PC.
To begin with, the software installed just fine. No problems or
conflicts got in the way.
One thing of note is that when Clip&Go is active, it seems to always have
a window bar on top of everything. This bar is narrower than the
minimised Grafiti window. It seemes to me that they could have done
something a little less conspicuous to let you know you are connected.
It' no big deal, though. It's easy enough to just put it aside.
My first real useage was to use it to move the IP address list of one of
my contract clients into the Omnigo. This information is kept in an
Excel spreadsheet. I ran into a few obsticles. The first of which was
that you can only copy a certain number of lines at a time. This was no
real problem since you can do it in pieces, as the manual recomends. The
second problem was unrelated to Clip&Go. The spreadsheet built into the
omniGo will only allow a spreadsheet to be 64 rows long. This meant i
had to save it in 3 parts. Again, no real problem, it just means Ill
have to do a little more searching when i need to find something. This
is probably the most important piece of data for me to keep around when
I'm doing work for this client. Up till now, i have just printed out a
hardcopy and carried it around with me. This has proven to be less than
convenient.
I have great plans for moving notes , text files, e-mail messages, and
other things into the ogo so that I can always have them with me.
I havn't transferred anything the other way yet, this review will be the
test. [Afterthought: it worked beautifully]
C&G does have a few other limitations that people should be aware of. It
only works with a select list of programs:
Ms Word 6.0 and later
Word Perfect 6.1 and later
AmiPro 3.1 and later
MS excel 5.0 and later
Lotus 1-2-3 5.0 and later
Quatro Pro 6.0 and later
Microsoft Paintbrush 3.11 and later
(C&g does not support copying information from Ms Paintbrush and pasting
to the OmniGo)
Also, copying info from a spreadsheet to n the omniGo to the PC is a
little wierd. Highlite the info on the OmniGo, hit copy. It creates a
file on the pc called c:clipgo.wk1 which you then open with your favorite
spreadsheet program. Havn't tried it, but tI think this is what the
manual was saying.
Summary: Clip&Go has a few limitations. Complex info can only be
transferred between certain programs. "Ink"/graphics can only be
transferred one way (Ogo-->PC). However, other than that, it seems to do
everything they said it would do. And, it seems to do it cleanly. Many
people will say that it is not worth the money because it doesn't do 9
different things that they think it should. However it does everything
it says it will do. If this is what you want, it's great (so far). This
is EXACTLY what I have wanted, so I believe it's worth every dime ($65 +
$5 s/h from Notebook Supply Wherehouse).
-Cyrus-
(Sorry this ended up so long)