Re: Debian and PDAs.
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 03:22:43PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 05:46:05AM -0500, Erin Lewy wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > Okay, well the taking on of a potentially huge project has kind of clued
> > me in to the fact that I would probably benefit hugely from a
> > laptop-type aparatus. Problem is (just trust me on this one), carrying
> > around a laptop is less than optimal. Having an additional shoulder bag
> > is at this point not really an option, and I could never, ever, ever
> > leave the thing sitting somewhere, so I'd be basically chained to it if
> > bringing it somewhere...
> >
> > So the thought occurred to me that I could get a PDA with a stow-away
> > keyoard and basically use that in laptop capacity, as a few of my
> > friends are doing.
> Aehm it's a big differents between 17Mhz and 700Mhz ... also 8MB Flash and
> a 20GB HD can't be compared.
I'm waiting for the Sharp Zaurus SL5500. Proper keyboad (well, small), linux
and Qtopia (QT embedded) plus a large range of expansion slots: this thing
should be big when it hits the shelves so long as the software is polished
enough.
IMHO of course!
Matthew
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