On Wednesday 13 October 2004 08:14 pm, Curtis Sloan wrote: > I've had a Dell Axim (broken; partly bad hardware, partly me :-P) and a > Palm m125 (current). The Dell units are decent as far as PDAs go. The > price point is nice and you get what you pay for: reasonably sturdy and > reliable, but not perfect.
What drew me to the Axim is the new 624 MHz processor. I think there might me Linux on Axim projects going, too, but they may be for older hardware. > If you want to sync a Pocket PC under Linux, look to SynCE > (http://synce.sf.net). It's coming along, but I would have to say you > probably still can't expect all of your data to sync properly. Your > options are also reduced using a Pocket PC -- pretty much Multisync + > Evolution or nothing (AFAIK). Yeah, that's kinda what I figured... > OTOH, I bought my Palm m125 recently (second hand because it was relatively > cheap) expressly because Palm are reputed to sync so much better with > Linux. It has performed flawlessly so far, and I have plenty of sync > options (KPilot, GPilot, J-Pilot, etc.). All in all, I'm very happy. Yes. My Palm IIIc worked great with Linux, which is why I'm still leaning toward the Palm. It does everything I need...for anything more than that I have a Laptop. > I have played with the new Tungstens; they just happen to be out of my > price range ATM. I would have bought one, had they not been. As far as > bang-for-buck goes (features, functionality, etc.), Palm is terrible > compared to Pocket PCs (although getting better). As far as ease-of-use > (and, for me, reliability) under Linux, Palm wins hands down. Great! Thanks for the tips, Curtis, Chris and Unleashed. I think I'll go with the Palm... -- Peter Pankonin, digitalcrucible There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
