Hehehe. I'm hanging up the Palm OS hat. No, I did not get a Dell Axim. I just bought a Sharp Zaurus SL-C1000. It got Linux. The last PDA I would ever need for years. It is being shipped, I should have it by Saturday. I got a good deal on it.

Here are my reasons.
-VGA- oohhhh so pretty! Videos and so much workspace.
-Thumboard- tap tap homework :-) and Instant Messaging
-Clamshell
-SD card slot
-CF card slot type I and II.
-Microdrive support- hmm 6gb Microdrive on ebay for only $199
-CF wifi cards supported. I will buy one eventually. Videos can be streamed

As for games, I can still play emulators. Those were the only games I ever played on handhelds.

-dances-

Specs listed here. It is converted from Japanese to English.


The Sharp Zaurus, what the Palm LifeDrive should have been. These are the true Mobile Managers.

I got my Sharp Zaurus today! Just in time for 1src chat. My precious is sooo sexy.

I'm uploading pictures now. About 35 of them. I will write my thoughts on it later. It works great! It's a brick but it's no doorstop LifeDrive! hehe. Linux ^_^

So sexy I uploaded all pictures now. http://photobucket.com/albums/a267/Legodude522



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Update:
Speed is decent. There is some lag. I'm ok with it because it does quite a bit. LifeDrive will lag just doing little tasks. The Zaurus does what it is meant to do an well, a laptop replacement. It got an awesome office suite on it. I don't mind it's brickiness, I wear jeans and it's fine. Performance hitches are worth it except for v

I am quite satisfied with it except... video playback sucks compared to a Palm or PPC. I'm gonna try other encoding settings and try to get a sweet spot. I can get it to play good, but not TCPMP amazing. More like using mmplayer, lol. There is a TCPMP port coming out eventually, I will get it right away. For now, this is sufficient.

I don't have a CF wifi card yet so I can't test web browsing. It does have Netfront and Opera.

Oh, and so you guys know, there is no soft reset button

Please post what you want to know and I will write a review.

Yes it does look very nice!
I too was thinking about one o these... but decided for the portability of the 770, and as I would use it most for browsing and email, and not so much for homework anymore ;-)

Yep I'm an old fart
But new to linux, and it rocks, just installed my first debian file / printer server and I love it! For my day job i'm a windows programmer so I'm locked into the m$ world.....
Thinkning about switching the home desktop, but I do want to play Oblivion when it comes out :-)

No questions to ask, just wanted to say hi

bye

The above posts were just a copy and paste job.

Ok. Zaurus isn't for everyone. The Nokia 770 is nice but it doesn't do everything I need it to do. The Zaurus is quite amazing in what it can do over an average Palm OS/Windows Mobile PDA. I can't carry around my laptop much, especially for school. I'm a high school student. A Palm with a foldout keyboard is nice, but this is much more efficient. I thought about getting a Palm LifeDrive, but it won't do everything I need it to do. I recently had a Palm Zire 72, it was nice but I wasn't using it to its full potential. So I sold that and made a profit since I refurbished it myself for cheaper. hehe. I still miss my Tapwave Zodiac 1. I don't miss the Zire 72.

How much did it cost? I thought they were very expensive, particularly as compared to the price of the OQO 1's when they went on sale recently ($1300?).

I like the keyboard aspect of it. I'll be interested to hear about your wifi experience. Will it be B or G?

I bought it used for $330 total on a forum. It is like new. Original screen protector is still on it. I'm still shopping around for an 802.11g CF wifi card that is compatable. Most are but I want to be sure. Buying a new one from a company that imports them would cost $550. Not worth that much.

The first thing you want to do is flash in the Cacko ROM. ;-)

It includes a new kernel with a bttv drivers for *vastly* improved multimedia performance. You can rid your videos at full speed with no skips. I suggest ZPlayer and/or Kino as the media players to use. Much better than the Sharp one.

Additionally, Cacko cleans up the interface quite a bit, adds support for innumerable WiFi and Bluetooth cards, gives you a bunch of handy little applets for managing swap, overclocking, etc, and just plain beats the pants off of the Sharp ROM.

http://www.oesf.org/forums is the place to start. :-)

- Rich

I bought it from someone at OE forums. I post there He customised the ROM himself so some of the stuff is optimised. I am fine with it for now... If I get bored, I will play with the Cacko ROM.

My Sharp Zaurus "fondle" video.

Video here at Google Videos. It looks like somewhere when it was encoded, it got faster.

Hi Legodude,
have you been able to go online with your zaurus?