- I've been without money, not been able to find my car keys, out of gas for the motorcycle, and locked out of the house, but I have never been without Hiroshi. It just doesn't happen. I don't know how often I use my Z because Hiro is always there in my butt bag ... I reach to my waist, grab, and use without a second thought. Hiroshi always works, never crashes, never fails, never loses data, and the Z is imminently expandable and configurable to do a simply amazing number of things that were never envisioned when it was made. In my opinion the Zaurus is what every PDA should dream of growing up to be one day. That includes every PDA or smart phone I've see to date.
- I've taken four months to solve a single Sokoban level; this game on the Z doesn't save where you are, it saves the level you are on, so I had that game loaded and active on the task bar for four months straight, in addition to anything else I may have done during that time. I've owned seven different PDAs and Hiroshi is the second most reliable, but the completely and utterly most enjoyable of them all. (most reliable: Psion 5mx - no reboot for three full years until I got my first Zaurus because they stopped making Psion - bows head in silence for Psion's passing)
- I use Hiroshi primarily for PIM and games, puzzle games like Zudoku and Sokoban. I have used the Z for music, wardriving, surfing for info, and I've fiddled around with VoIP, apache, mysql, C++ development, perl, and anything else that crossed my mind in the last four years. The power, flexibility, form factor, and minuscule size are a real sweet spot for me.
- I don't post here much of late because I moved into a "fixer upper" house, which takes a considerable chunk of time, and this is at an excellent dark sky site, so I've taken up amateur astronomy. I do hope to write some astro software for Hiro to run goto telescopes. Time will tell, or it won't, Gosh Darn!
- Having typed all that, I'll definitely give the latest pdaX a shot once it's available! (grin) I like trying out distro and feel confident that some day I'll find one that works as well as Cacko. If not ... NAND backup does just what it should, it puts Hiroshi back precisely as it was before flashing, so it's painless and fun to fiddle around with the possibilities...