Condidering C860 - QUESTIONS

[Anonymous]

I must say the C860 and its older siblings look great. I just settled on an SL5600 which for now will be fine.

I\'ve not been able to locate a real solid answer to a quesiton about the C860 (and like) keyboards. They\'re no doubt bigger than anything else built-in, but are they really big enough to someone with modest sized hadns to actually touch-type on them. Or, at the very least, type without having to use the classic hunt-peck methods you have to endures on a keyboard like that found on the 5600?

For my needs decent keyboard access is important. I\'ll get that certainly with a wirelss keyboard attached to my 5600, but if I can get close results with a C860 that\'d go a long way to getting me to buy one.

I agree these litle guys are great. I want to try things with them now that I\'ve not thought about for some time.

I\'m still going to miss my Newton (what a wonderful OS and technology base - especially after NOS 2.0 - speaking as a user and Newton developer) but the Z has a lot going for it.

[TonyOlsen]

For Hancom Word it isn\'t as much the file size as it is the result number of text lines.  I tried to open a txt file that was around 750 KB in Hancom Word and my 64 MB Zaurus eventually stopped responding.   ...so I think it\'s the number of resulting lines of text instead of just the file size.  I suspect I could create a Word document that only said \"Hello World\" and had a 1.5 MB BMP attached, and it would load fine.

[padishah_emperor]

I\'ve not been able to locate a real solid answer to a quesiton about the C860 (and like) keyboards. They\'re no doubt bigger than anything else built-in, but are they really big enough to someone with modest sized hadns to actually touch-type on them

I have large-ish hands, I only do wordprocessing on my Z nowadays rather than on a PC, I had quite a speed on my 5500, but I find the 860 keyboard very adequate, if it\'s sat on a desktop being used \'laptop\' style I can go almost as fast as I do on my desktop machine.

[charlesa]

I have not receievd any replies from ryouma(the e-bay guy) in the last two days on my questions, so I am starting to wonder... Another possibility is Brando(www.shop.brando.com.hk), they seem to be cheap - I just don\'t know how reliable. Anyway, my quest to find a C860 continues....

Yeah I have also been trying to buy a C860 from ryouma for the past few weeks, but he hasn\'t been answering any emails in this time (and I have tried a number of times).  Many on this board really recommend him though.  Maybe Golden Week (Japanese spring holiday which was last week) kept him offline.  I am tempted to go with Japan-Direct; they at least answered my email in ~12 hours.

FWIW,

C.

[BalroG]

Hi Charlesa

I did get a hold of ryouma and have wired the money(still waiting for the damn bank to complete the transaction :-( ). He has been responsive and helpful on e-mail so far, although he did e-mail me to say that the invoice would be a bit late due to the \"Golden Week\" holidays in Japan at that stage. He sometimes does take a while to get back on some points, but I don\'t have any complaints so far.

From just the number of posts on this board, it looks like the dude is quite busy sending Zaurii all over the place, so that might also explain the slow response sometimes experienced.

My bank says the money will be transferred only the day after tomorrow. I am so impatient now that I have finally decided to go ahead with getting one of these little beasts! :-) now I will be a nervous wreck for the next 2 weeks \'til it arrives. I just pray it gets here safely and in one piece!

Good luck with your purchase, cheers!