[geeks] PCMCIA Flash

[Dan Sikorski]

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 13:20, Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 January 2003 12:51 am, Dan Sikorski wrote:
> > Not bad, but one thing i hadn't considered was mentioned by another
> > list member, power consumption.  
> 
> That could have been me as I mentioned something along those lines. I 
> certainly have battery duration probs on my Zaurus with a 802.11b card 
> in (last about 1.5 hours).

I'm hoping that the battery in the expansion pack for the ipaq doesn't
leave me in a similar situation.

> It seems that the ipaq is in a better position with respect to battery 
> life :-
> 
> http://www.tjotala.com/hardware/storagebrick/default.htm

Why on earth would you want to have an external drive like that for an
ipaq? It completely kills the portability aspect of it, and without
that, what good is the ipaq?

	-Dan Sikorski