[geeks] PDA's

[Mike Meredith]

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 01:53:17 -0400 (EDT)
vance at neurotica.com wrote:
> Second, does it support Microdrives in the CF-II slot?  I might get
> one of the new 4-giggers if I can come up with that much money.  How
> about a 2.2GB solid-state CF-II card?

Are you *really* sure you're going to need that much space ? A
microdrive is going to suck your pda's battery's clean in a
distressingly short amount of time. If you replace WinCE with
NetBSD you still may not be using as much storage as you might think ...
how much storage did a DECstation 5000 have ? I'm doing ok on a Zaurus
with a little under 256Mbytes, so I'd guess 512Mbytes would be plenty.

And you can always upgrade later.

> Third, is the 131MHz NEC/MIPS VR4121 in the 770 fast enough to play
> MP3 and FLAC?  How about the 168MHz VR4121 in the 780 and 790?  Has
> anyone tried getting xmms working on a palmtop?

xmms is available for the Zaurus although I haven't tried it. The OPIE
player works fine for me.