On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 05:46:05AM -0500, Erin Lewy wrote: Hi,
> Okay, well the taking on of a potentially huge project has kind of clued > me in to the fact that I would probably benefit hugely from a > laptop-type aparatus. Problem is (just trust me on this one), carrying > around a laptop is less than optimal. Having an additional shoulder bag > is at this point not really an option, and I could never, ever, ever > leave the thing sitting somewhere, so I'd be basically chained to it if > bringing it somewhere... > > So the thought occurred to me that I could get a PDA with a stow-away > keyoard and basically use that in laptop capacity, as a few of my > friends are doing. Aehm it's a big differents between 17Mhz and 700Mhz ... also 8MB Flash and a 20GB HD can't be compared. > people have tons of different little gadgets you can get--which is at > once evil and yet cool. So, in an ideal world, I would get a > Handspring. So go out test it and buy it if you realy like it :) It's running Palm OS so it should be fast and stable. > Of course, in this ideal world, I'd also have to be using Windows, > because all of the synching and other packages I am seeing on Debian's > servers seem to ME to be specific for Palms. As I am VERY new to this > whole idea, I thought that before assuming one or the other way I ought > to consult with some people who are more likely than I to know this > answer. I.E.: you guys. These apps are for Palm OS wich means that you can use it with every PDA running Palm OS inlcuding Handsprings. > So-- does anyone here have a PDA and if so what kind and how has your > luck been as far as being able to synch it and whatnot? I own a Palm m100 and a Agenda VR3d. IMHO the Palm OS simply rocks ;) its fast, stable and their is a lot of freeware/shareware to get. Sync apps for Palm OS are avaible for nearly all OS. The worst thing is that the case of the m1* series sucks. It's sheap plastic and the cover will crack in most cases within the first week :( The Agenda is generaly a cool thing cause it's running Linux and their is much stuff to play around with it. BUT it's not ready to simply plug in the akkus and use it like a Palm. So nothing for Linux newbies ... (I'm still fighting with the software cause, if no time to poke around with it) > I've looked at the Linux-specific PDAs but they're either too built up > (with lots of graphicy-related stuff) or too bare bones. So as much as > I'd in theory like to have an open-source PDA or whatnot, well, it's not > really going to happen at the moment. ACK > Mainly I want a highly portable bit of electronics capable of creating > wordprocessing documents,, possibly with the ability to check e-mail, > which I wouldn't have to synch by rebooting into Windows all the time. I think their is no way around a real labtop for you if you realy want to work with it. It's realy hard to read mailinglist on this small displays. Such a devices is only usefull for your personal to do lists, calculator, time planning, IP Calculator (for lazy sysops :), and a few games. Everything IMHO :) Sven -- Lamer! :)\nLokaler Admin mit enormen Rechten[tm] [Christian Schneider und Jens Himmelrath in alt.hacker.org-gcf] http://www.linux-secure.de http://www.linuxboard.de http://www.bluephod.net http://www.disconow.de
