But still interesting....http://www.bargainpda.com/default.asp?newsID=1863 It's IBM's Linux PDA offering ......maybe

Hamilton

It was quite quiet about this PowerPC 405LP based reference design. It was announced last year (January?) to come in thrid quarter. In last fall, even all the documentation of the 405LP processor has been pulled off the Internet. So I get the impression that it is some small scale pre-development or research project but not a product.

I personally would very welcome this device as it would bring our Digital Companion project for the Macintosh even closer to the Mac by using the same PowerPC processor. Currently we use the Zaurus/ARM and create "Fat Binaries" compiled for two different architectures.

hns
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http://www.dsitri.de/wiki.php?page=DigitalCompanion

I'm having difficulty putting much faith in an article that can't even get the date of the m500 introduction correct (more like 3 years ago I think, and IBM has still been selling those rebadged Palms up until very recently).

Also, that picture is very familiar. I think I saw it sometime last fall.

There is a new announcement for a PowerPC based PDA from Unitech coming at 11th of March. But they call it an "Industrial PDA"....

http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article....pages=B3&seq=86

The pic looks like a repackaged a300:

http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/2243.html