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Toshiba Pocket PC e570 Review

Posted by timothy on from the needful-things dept.

msolnik writes: "PocketNow has a review of the new Toshiba Pocket PC e570. With an integrated CompactFlash Type I/II, Secure Digital (SD) slot, a 206Mhz StrongArm, and upto 64MB of ram the Toshiba is going to give the IPAQ a run for its money. Just FYI with some slight modifications the Handhelds.org IPAQ Linux distro should run just fine on the Toshiba."

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  1. Another PDA? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Another PDA?

    Uh, is this only newsworthy, cause the submitted said "it might be able to carry a linux distro"?

    In that case, my toilet may carry a linux distro. Is that news?

    Must be a slow news day....

  2. For a website .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    .. that supposedly advocates open-source, Slashdot runs a surprising number of stories supporting Microsoft's platform domination. CmdrTaco drools over an X-BOX and Timothy wants his PocketPC. MS has the potential to monopolize the PDA and console market -- the essential question is how the thing comes out of the factory, and the more power you give to Microsoft, the less likely it becomes that it will ever be anything but Windows. They will just use the same OEM-type licensing that they're using everywhere.

    Face it, it's far easier to break MS' monopoly if you have several players. If Microsoft becomes so powerful that it controls everyone else except for a few geeks who are happy that they can run Linux on their new toys, we have lost.

  3. But John Spartan, All Restaurants are Taco Bell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Q: Is it just me, or is every (non-Palm) PDA on the market sporting these specs?

    A: Well you see John Spartan, after the great PDA wars of the early 21st century, there was only one chip manufacturer left. The market is much happier this way.

    Q: Hey, couldn't one of these vendors at least ship with Linux preinstalled? (Never mind the new Sharp SL5000)

    A: Oh no John Spartan! Using Linux means that you must be able to think, and thinking bad. Hence Linux is illegal.

    Q: Um, what are these 3 csh's for?

    P.S.: I would've sworn that the new PocketPC OS would've driven everyone to a faster CPU. Is MS breaking their new OS == hardware upgrade pattern?