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For Sale / Wanted / No The 6000 On Ebay Is Not Mine!

« on: December 15, 2005, 08:36:00 am »

Reported a couple more today on ebay.co.uk, he is realy moving round the world yesterday the 300euro units were in the UK and today they are in Italy

Rip off 6000

still in a way it is good he uses the Zaurus his other rip off listings for phones etc could be missed

Though I also see his rubbish netbook listing just as rare but he has lots of them

Rip off netbook

any one want to guess how much  

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General Discussion / Sd Card / Compact Flash Adaptor

« on: November 18, 2005, 06:13:32 am »

Thanks for that just
Just needed confirmation that the slot was happy with adapters, the one i am looking at the sd card goes inside the shell of the cf card so it can be used with CF doors closed on cameras etc so the size should not be a problem   .

Cheers

John

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General Discussion / Sd Card / Compact Flash Adaptor

« on: November 18, 2005, 05:03:24 am »

Hello all

Having lots of fun with my new 760 (well new to me).

quick question , at the moment pretty much every toy I have uses SD cards and I am not that keen on investing in a big CF card, I was wondering if anyone has used a CF adaptor to allow them to use SD cards in the CF slot

http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1052753685.htmlv

or

ebay item 7563745142  (damn thier URL's are long)

they seem to be available in CF I and CF II flavours

Anyone tried them

Cheers

John

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General Discussion / Help Picking My First Zaurus (ok Went For C760)

« on: November 04, 2005, 08:58:27 am »

First of all thanks for the all the advice,

I have decided to be sensible   and have picked up a c760 on eBay. (I have promised myself a c3100 as long as I get some use out of the 760).

I guess I should head to the cxx0 room now but before I go a few general questions  

1st  Which ROM I am have looked at the cacko 1.23 or the pdaXrom (but any other recommendations for the 760 gratefully received ) just wondered if there are any strong reasons either way or is it a case of keep flashing till you find one you like.

2nd  Am I right in saying that the hardware on the 760 and 860 are the same and the only difference is the shipped software/firmware

Cheers

John

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General Discussion / Help Picking My First Zaurus (ok Went For C760)

« on: October 24, 2005, 05:48:41 pm »

Hello Again,

First thanks for all the feedback

Still looking at picking up a zaurus , however I have rasied my sights as I like the idea of having the USB port to play with  

Looking at a 3000 at a pretty good price just wanted to ask if there was any major problems with the lack of memory when compared to the 3100 .

The White case would not be my number one choice but $150 difference between the two will help me get over it  

Cheers again for the help

John

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General Discussion / Help Picking My First Zaurus (ok Went For C760)

« on: October 12, 2005, 11:10:23 am »

Hello All

Sorry if this is in wrong forum but it seemed pretty general to me  

Bit of advice, been looking at getting a Zaurus in some form for a few weeks. I started off looking at a cheap 5500 on ebay which I missed out on due to my inability to tell the time   , I have since looked at and bid on a few others but no luck so far.

Stumbled on this site

http://conics.net/shp/pda/zaurus-sl-c700/index.html

The Used SL Machines seem reasonable but I have a couple of questions.

1. Has anyone bought from these lads ? Getting it shipped to london
2. Which one to buy , or should I carry on looking for a 5500
3. the New SL-C1000 @ $450 USD seems a good price Is this a big improvement over the 8xx 7xx range
4. Is the keyboard on the 1000 and up models a big improvement on the 7xx 8xx
5. What do you think of the prices ?
6. The thickness of the old machines does appeal , as the new ones look a tad chunky.
7. Is the screen quality the same across the range ?

I would list all my requirements for the machine but I cant think of any  justifcation for me buying one (Not that that has ever stopped me) .

The only Zaurus I have had my hands on was the c750 in japan great screen.
 
Current Pda's Treo 650, Tungsten T3, Ipaq H4100 ,Zodiac 2 (x2), psion 3c ,psion revo, psion netbook, psion 5x so apart from my netbook pretty linux free so my need is great  

Cheers For any Help

John

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For Sale / Wanted / Thinking Of Selling My 860

« on: October 07, 2005, 06:29:21 am »

First post but I have been looking at getting some form of Zaurus for a few days

Just missed out on a c860 on ebay in the uk, it ended up going for £226 thats just short of $400

Item number: 5814288620 ebay.co.uk

Quite a lot of interest, and not that many out there.

Hope that helps