I don't think color or b/w is going to influence theft either way. This sounds more like a business problem. The answer is to make people accountable for the devices assigned to them.

>I would then suppose that you cannot use VS 2005 to develop apps for the Palm Pilot?
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>Our vendor is recommending that we go with the Palm Pilots since they have Black & White screens and less options on them, which makes them less likely to be stolen. Things sometime disappear from this plant. A Pocket PC would be pretty tempting to take for some people, since you can put it into your "pocket" and walk off with it so easily.
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>Cecil