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Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000 Reviewed

Posted by timothy on from the 800-dollar-pda dept.

Bill Kendrick writes "Sharp's hard-drive-packing SL-C3000 model Zaurus (available in the U.S. from Dynamism) has been reviewed by BargainPDA. They cover the differences between this one and earlier, similar models, and even go over some of the stuff interesting to Linux users."

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  1. Re:$820? Can we please stop advertising Ripoffism? by Keith+Russell · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Amazon.co.jp has the SL-C3000 listed for ¥74,800. At the latest US Dollar/Yen exchange rate, that's $729.01. Given the system's specs, that sounds like a fair price.

    That leaves Dynamism $89.99 for:

    • Per-unit tarriffs and shipping costs.
    • Localization, including both translation and regression testing.
    • Operating costs for a tech support department that, if they were just a grey-market box shifter, they wouldn't have to provide.

    Only after all that do they get whatever profit the free market will bear.

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