What do you use your Zaurus for?

[RichS]

I think I\'ll have to stand up for the \'old farts\' around here! How many of you remember NO computers?

I\'m still exploring my SL-5600 and loving it. I do use it for reading, catching up on usenet (slrn), web browsing a bit, re-learning bash & linux, playing some mp3\'s hosted on my wireless network, making a friend with a 5500 jealous ;-) and for now, trying to find all the software I need to make it a laptop replacement. Oh- and a few games ;-) Oh-2 and pestering a few people here with some dumb questions ;-)

[rrashkin]

I remember 1955.  There were computers around but they were pretty exotic.

I use my Z (SL5500, Sharp3.1) as a mobile computer.  I use very little of the PIM stuff; only the address book really.  I use Word and Sheet a lot.  I also use JEODE to run a lot of little apps I wrote to help me with my job (a HEX reader, LeastSquares linear fit, stuff like that).  If it weren\'t for my company\'s paranoid insistance on controlling all the devices on THEIR LAN, I wouldn\'t use a PC at all.

[nasteratu]

I love my zaurus, I use it mainly for
--time management pourposes (ie calender, to do list, alarm, syncing with Evolution rocks!)
--to quick check facts online w/ wifi
--read news when I get that /. itch during the middle of class
--to code up some quick programs in the middle of class to test(vim on a thumb keyboard is interesting =p)
-- games, rarely

[derekp]

I\'ve been searching for the ultimate use for my Zaurus, but so far the main use is as a geek-toy.  I\'ve been busy tweaking the heck out of it (speedup tricks, getting X to run on it, working with /home on SD, running dual-boot with OZ on my SD card and TKC in rom, etc.)
As for \"production\" apps:
1)  Biggest use, wireless web browsing (Opera)
2) Experimenting with organization tools (KO/pi, etc...), but this requires that I put in the effort to load info into the app first.
3) Put spreadsheets and word documents on it that people mail me and bring it to meetings, instead of printing them out
4) Games, esp. MAME (those classic arcade games that I wasted many a quarter on work perfectly with the Z\'s screen oriantation)
5) Time waster for meetings (see 3 & 4 above) :-)
6) Soon as I get a myth-tv server going, plan on porting the frontend to the Zaurus, and use it to whatch captured tv shows.  Also plan on downloading them to a CF card for the morning drive into work.