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Sharp Zaurus SL-C750 (P)reviewed
Bill Kendrick writes "Dynamism loaned the Japan-only 'C750' clamshell model Zaurus Linux PDA to the folks over at BargainPDA.com, and they've put up a mini-review, with the promise of a more in-depth review to come soon. The funniest part is they needed to scale down the screenshots to fit on their site."
The SLC-760 sucks. Sorry, but it sucks. I bought one at first sight, and got some use out of it, but it's battery life is horrendous (using a PHS device to use the 'net I get an hour and a half -- 1.5 hours on a PDA!), and usable memory is so small it's laughable. This problem was alleviated somewhat by getting a sdram card and adding a swapfile, but that makes things really slow. It was also really overpriced (cost me around 80,000 yen for the unit, a CF network card, a 256 Mb SDRAM chip, and a PHS wireless card).
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It was nice to finally be able to read Slashdot during my train commute, and more importantly, to give me something to read on the shitter, but when the beautiful Panasonic W2 (http://www.dynamism.com/w2/index.shtml) came out a couple of weeks ago I snapped one up (I got it direct from Panasonic with a 60 Gb drive and 512 Mb of RAM), and my SLC-760 is sitting unused, collecting dust. I only wish I could sell it and get even HALF of what I paid for it just a couple of months ago.
I track known Slashdot scumbags on my foes list!
Yet another review of a product that few will ever see has been performed!? WOW! I can't wait to never be able to by this one! >