[geeks] HP Journada 720 - $75 (Refurbished, after rebate)

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:13:15AM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> I used to have a NEC MobilePro 790 that I really liked and I was 
> wondering how the speed of the 206MHz StrongARM in the Jornada compares 
> with the 168MHz VR4121 in the MobilePro?

Roughly equivalent to a P90 in performance. Not the same instruction set,
some things are a lot slower. If you tried to run an X86 emulator on it,
it would be 286/16 or 386/SX16. 

The best I could ever do on a 500mHz one with an X86 emulator was to
get Duke Nukem (the original almost text graphics) game running.
Many MAME games will run. It might have trouble with MP3's depending
upon the exact player you run. No real video playback.

If you want a low resolution, hard to use X-terminal with ssh over WiFi
it would work. 

Just before I read this, I blogged about something similar and a use for
it.

Geoff. 

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