Zaurus Vs Sony Psp

[nilch]

Without having looked at the  screen...

Its firstly a bigger screen than the Zaurus 6000L
The screen on the PSP is a 4.3 inches big screen - thats impressive.

But again the resolution is only  480 x272 pixels  widescreen format
So that may not be so good as compared to the zaurus - but again - it depeneds on what you are using it for.

[BarryW]

It's a little lower res, but not by much.  I guess it's just that the video looks sooo much better.

[boosalis]

One thing that strikes me about this is the processor (mips R4400), and graphics engine, twenty years ago this same cpu was state of the art on a SGI graphics workstatiion costing $20K.  Hard to   imagine what the next twenty years will bring.

[B_Lizzard]

Well, the PSP, besides it's lack of a touch screen might become a really good PDA...People have started a PSP-Linux project down at PSP-Linux.org ... Thing is, most people in there don't know crap about Linux and are constantly bumping the forums with stupid info...


Well, check out one of the Topics I made and even contribute some of your knowledge....Cause we're lost.

[tg]

Hard to   imagine what the next twenty years will bring.
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Here are few random guesses about what is coming in next 20 years:

1. MS will release it's next os and office suite (it will include an almost finished version of .net and of course highly secure Outlook and IE with revolutionary tabbed browsing).

2. Intel and AMD will have their liquid cooled cpus at about 50Ghz - it will be required to open the latest MS office docs

3. Apple will release G5 powerbook (and it won't burn your lap to use it)

4. Apple will release 2 button wheel mouse

5. Linux will rule the desktop and we may even see Adobe release Linux photoshop in a last ditch effort to have people convert back from GIMP

6. And my boldest prediction:  Sharp will release clamshell Zaurus in US and Europe and will support it - it will have a wifi and also functional PIM in Sharp's strongest push to have it's software suite take market share back for Oz which will rule the blossoming PDA "desktop" market (Sharp may also go as far as to hire an English speaking developer to write their menu screens and help sections).

[speculatrix]

One thing that strikes me about this is the processor (mips R4400), and graphics engine, twenty years ago this same cpu was state of the art on a SGI graphics workstatiion costing $20K.  Hard to   imagine what the next twenty years will bring.
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the MIPS processor has been under a lot of development in the meanwhile, so don't think of the PSP as having a 20 year old design.

the MIPS was also well designed, so it has stood the test of time, a bit like the Sun Sparc... compare to the x86 architecture which was a nasty hack of 8080, and is bloated and nasty in all its forms. The x86 should have never lived past the embedded 188 and 186 variants!!!

Paul

[kahm]

Saw a PSP for a brief moment today. Nice device - it's definitely on my wishlist. I'm going to go back and try Wipeout on it tomorrow.

The screen is bigger than the Z's, but my 860 screen is both brighter and has a better FOV, on top of having more than twice as many pixels.

Given that you're going to have to re-encode video anyway (and store it on Memory Sticks), coupled with the PSP's lack of keyboard and touchscreen, I'm not too worried about the PSP ever supplanting my 860 (or 3000 when I get it).