Palm Sunday (On Board The S.S. Within)

redcountess has been remarkably unwell this week, hence our notable lack of social lives. This pushes forward the urgency of getting some sort of computing device she can use from bed. The options are:

1. A cheap laptop. Colour pixels and Ethernetability are just about all it needs in technical terms, because it doesn't have to run more than an X server to connect to her FreeBSD machine. The catch is if it's too inconvenient to use in bed. And we don't have five hundred quid to drop at Morgan's.
2. A recent Palm, such as this tempting toy. Liz already plays solitare on a TRGpro (Palm III clone) tippy-tap and can use it even on quite bad days. The catch for intarweb is the 320×320 screen.

Your advice is sought: is something Palmlike usable for browsing, not just text, without wanting to throw it against the wall after ten minutes?

Also, if someone has a frustratingly ancient laptop they don't need that can do (or be made to do) Ethernet, for a suitably low price, please get in touch!

Happy birthday, by the way, to sbp, whose 43rd (octal) birthday party is tonight. Quite a lot of the people I wanted to ask the above will be there.

Update: How useful and/or available in the UK is the Toshiba Libretto or something of similar form factor?