"It would be a full-fledged computer, not just a minimal toy," he said.

There, they started to create a new 68000-based games console, codenamed Lorraine, that could be upgraded to a full-fledged computer.

Typically, tablets use smaller processors than full-fledged computers.

Not much larger than a deck of playing cards, the Pilot is intended as an adjunct to full-fledged computers.

Rex takes its place at the lightest, simplest end of a growing range of little devices meant to serve as helpmates to full-fledged computers.

This latest attempt to cram a full-fledged computer into an address-book-size package shows promise, but its first incarnations show little improvement over their many predecessors.

Better-quality Internet sound may give consumer electronics companies the impetus to offer Internet audio receivers that will be much less expensive than a full-fledged computer.

As the BlackBerry wireless e-mail device has grown into a full-fledged computer, it has left Macintosh users behind.

There is the lone Toshiba Libretto, a tiny full-fledged computer with an even tinier keyboard.

Although it lacks a full-fledged computer, Netvision, at $899, will offer Internet access at a lower price.