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« Reply #30 on: February 23, 2004, 01:12:35 pm »
The thing I find most intriguing about this is that if it is possible to run a bloated, inefficient OS like XP on something this size, we can\'t be too far from seeing someone (Sharp?) producing a handheld capable of running a full linux distro.

Processing power and screen resolutions have increased enough to make it possible, the only real issue is can it be done affordably.

The SL-CXXX form factor with the SL-6000 screen, built-in wifi & BT and an internal mini hard drive (4GB) could possibly be the perfect combination of features for a pocketable laptop device.  Ya think?

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« Reply #31 on: March 06, 2004, 11:16:41 pm »
hmmm...seems there is already a fan site for it http://www.mini411.com/ and it does in fact appear to be powered by a Crusoe TM5800 processor per this article http://www.mini411.com/show/news/5/0/FlipS..._in_detail.html

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« Reply #32 on: April 21, 2004, 10:52:21 pm »
Just one little thing i see, its running bloody <windows!>..

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« Reply #33 on: April 22, 2004, 01:43:11 am »
I\'m still looking forward to the release of this, I do plan on getting one of these pending how available they are. First thing I will do is wipe Windoze and install some form of Linux.
I don\'t want touch screen never much cared for it except on a pda and I don\'t plan on this being a pda. Perfect size HD for what I want. Best part I can toss in in my pocket still.
I will never give up my Z I am way to attached but I think the two could compliment each other well.

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« Reply #34 on: April 23, 2004, 03:04:26 pm »
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I\'m still looking forward to the release of this, I do plan on getting one of these pending how available they are. First thing I will do is wipe Windoze and install some form of Linux.
I don\'t want touch screen never much cared for it except on a pda and I don\'t plan on this being a pda. Perfect size HD for what I want. Best part I can toss in in my pocket still.
I will never give up my Z I am way to attached but I think the two could compliment each other well.

Why buy it if it isn\'t designed specifically for linux. you know where you stand with sharp!.

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« Reply #35 on: April 23, 2004, 04:00:07 pm »
Wow $1500... that\'s a ton of money... but it\'s still less than I would have expected.  I was thinking it would be around $2000-$3000.  Is the $1500 fully loaded, or is it just the basics?

I actually looked at this before I bought my SL-C860, but I decided to go with the SL-C860 anyways because it\'s smaller.  ...I REALLY wanted my next work laptop to fit in my pocket, and although this mini-PC is very small... you can\'t fit it in your pocket.

I was tired of lugging around laptops in large laptop bags.  Instead my SL-C860 (and ALL of its acceseries) fit in a small rectangle camera bag that\'s attached to my belt.  Extra geeky... and I love it!

Besides... XP is a big turn-off.  We work in a Windows-only environment and some of us have\"upgraded\" our WindowsXP machines to Windows98... since Windows98 is the last OS that Microsoft put out that was good.  Since then it has only gone downhill.
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« Reply #36 on: April 23, 2004, 04:32:04 pm »
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you know where you stand with sharp!.

Yup, nowhere.  (I\'m not an \"enterprise\" customer)

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« Reply #37 on: April 23, 2004, 05:15:16 pm »
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you know where you stand with sharp!.

Yup, nowhere.  (I\'m not an \"enterprise\" customer)

My thoughts exactly, I love my Zaurus don\'t get me wrong.
But I would like to see a \"little\" more backing from Sharp to the entire population.

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« Reply #38 on: April 23, 2004, 08:19:13 pm »
\"some of us have\"upgraded\" our WindowsXP machines to Windows98\"

LOL

98 better than xp?
you like invalid page faults??

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« Reply #39 on: April 24, 2004, 12:13:59 am »
THose page faults are a minor annoyance, true (they happen less when I don\'t do anything, or install anything, destructive to the system), but it\'s less annoying than WindowsXP freezing the computer for 20 seconds every few minutes while it \"considers your request\".  *Gag*.  WindowsXP treats the user more like a baby, and gives them less controll, than Windows98.   ...and then there\'s Linux which may prove to beat them all... I just need to learn it first...
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« Reply #40 on: April 24, 2004, 12:48:21 am »
Even with all the memory and stuff in this flipstart thing I\'d probably buy the \"TELIOS\" from a trusted company called sharp of course it has digital cameras and it runs windows mobile pc although it has low memory... more like the zaurus but wiht more things able to do...

heres the page in japanese...
http://www.sharp.co.jp/sc/eihon/hcvj1c/text/index.html

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« Reply #41 on: April 24, 2004, 03:30:06 am »
Everyone talking about the http://minipc.vulcan.com

I found something else: http://www.dialogue.com.tw/english/product...cts/flybook.htm

Have everything you could think about out of the box. But again, A5 format won\'t fit in my pocket as my 760 does.

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« Reply #42 on: April 24, 2004, 04:37:26 am »
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Why buy it if it isn\'t designed specifically for linux. you know where you stand with sharp!.

Mentat my friend, you\'re fighting a loosing battle, there are a number of people, they know who they are, who are just itching to find something else, not everyone has the outlook on these devices that I know we share, so let them be, hopefully they will go there way and find something else to lust after for 5 mins, find faults and repeat the bitching ad-nauseum, ad-infinitum.  You and I were both witness to the decline of a PDA we liked, it started with people lusting after other things, they obviously think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, let them be. You will only become disheartened. Take my advice, pretend the off-topic forum doesn\'t exist, I\'m coming round to that way of thinking myself.

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« Reply #43 on: April 24, 2004, 04:48:16 am »
To mentat_bashar

The thing is, if you are loyal and love your Z, all this side crap is meaningless, but the point is valid, you always get people (usually in the country with the greatest consumer fanatics) that love to buy-buy-buy and are never happy, maybe they should chill and take a more buddhist view of life, who knows, but to vex one\'s self over these side issues?, they are meaningless... and some people can never be satisfied with what they have, it\'s not in their world-view at all.

Notice a posting above from a chap, I\'ve ran into on more than one occasion, most of his postings are regarding other hardware, always looking for something else, and always will be, caught in a endless loop of buying, entering PIM data, bitching/fault finding and wanting more.

I expect to be using my Z five years from now, and if I can get as many years from the Z as I did my 200LX (the best part of a decade) I will. I\'d consider a new Z in a few years if it was really worth it. The quiet majority of Z lovers will do the same. I wanted this kind of machine for the last 10 years, I won\'t give it up just yet.

Chill mentat_bashah. I mean, this piece of bloated crap runs XP! If this had Linux and loaded my book reader in a second or my word processor within a second, I\'d look at it again, but it\'s a PC, with all the warts, a laptop running XP, let the lemmings go chasing it, off a cliff...

Some people just do not get it (like some people who cannot understand why Sharp don\'t sell/support the Z globally - not difficult to understand), at all, many buy a LINUX pda because we hate f***ing Microsoft and their stupid XP stuff, grrr. But if that\'s not an issue, please, please sell your Z\'s and move on.

Who\'s idea was it for an off-topic forum? ;-) O.R.G?? :-)

(Can\'t believe this has run over three pages now, I am bailing...)
Left Linux and Linux PDAs... sorry, got boring.  Switched to Mac.

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« Reply #44 on: April 24, 2004, 05:35:47 am »
Talking about MS device. I found one very funny with surprising design.

With screenshots:

http://www.pocketpcpassion.com/forum/showt...d=40551&ksp=747