These are the features I use on my Palm:IR Port for opening MLS LockboxesMLS Software for property info (phone must be compatible) BlueTooth Connection (for car)Internet sharing to laptop via bluetooth (tethering) Email Contacts (sync with Outlook)Word, ExcelCamera (for emailing pics)MP3 PlayerSpeaker Phone featureInternet (mostly for finding business addresses & phone #s)Touch Screen (this is almost a MUST HAVE)-Peter

If you need to work on the road get a laptop with an SSD (solid state drive).

I have a stolen laptop sitting in one of those apartments right now actually (the Wifi gave it away when they turned it on)!

Kids would stash their free lunch meals into their backpacks so they could feed their parents.In contrast, my wife later taught public elementary school in a wealthy area in Seattle.

I took the high road to te tune of $700 one time and was rewarded two months later with finding my best real estate deal yet and great tenants.  

Bedbugs are good hitchhikers, they can attach to a backpack at school or at the gym and get carried in.

I am sitting here with my laptop and reading this, and I had to turn around and look at my walls to see what kind of finish they have LOL. 

I love the details - including the paint job at your little laptop nook where you put a different color on the diagonal.  

If they find themselves on the wrong side of the door from their phone, I can grab my phone or laptop and open the door w/o the need to drive across town.

Meeting people on the road who were retired at 45, or generating 50k/month running Amazon FBA businesses from their laptops was mind-blowing to me.