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Zaurus SL-5600/SL-5500 Comparison Whitepaper

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the handhelds-to-desire dept.

Bill Kendrick writes "A cool as the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 Linux-based PDA is, there are definitely some quibbles about battery life, software and syncing. Fortunately, it seems the folks at Sharp and TrollTech have been working on it for the new 5600 model. Sharp just posted a whitepaper (PDF) comparing the two models. (Newer kernel, no more root-privs-for-everything, JFFS2, dropping slow XML for PIM stuff, and USB-IO syncing, to name a few.)"

6 of 117 comments (clear)

  1. Memory Area by 10Ghz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Program Memory (Work area)

    SL-5500: 28.1MB
    SL-5600: 29.1KB

    Huh??

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    1. Re:Memory Area by AlCoHoLiC · · Score: 3, Funny

      Oh boy, don't you know that "29.1 kb ought to be enough for everybody" ?

  2. Strange by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anybody notice that the entire god damned front page is only stories from Taco? Did his wife kick him out of bed or what?

  3. Great advantage by gmuslera · · Score: 2, Funny

    now it have 4 new themes! Finally something that I can say clearly that is better in the new model!

  4. Re:I can't wait! by kotj.mf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Exactly. Slap a CF 802.11b card in there, and surf the web on the crapper. The Information Superhighway is truly upon us.

    And if I drain the battery doing that, I've got more problems than I thought...

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  5. Mine's been... by 0x7F · · Score: 2, Funny
    sitting unused in the docking cradle for a while now. Let's check up on it.
    tpope@marge:~% ssh snowball
    Linux snowball 2.4.6-rmk1-np2-embedix #11 Tue Oct 29 14:43:28 CST 2002 armv4l unknown
    root@snowball:~# uptime
    10:34pm up 70 days, 17:23, load average: 4.00, 4.00, 4.00
    root@snowball:~#
    Wow. Let's see a PocketPC do that!