On 10 Oct, 21:15, Gerald H wrote:
> Cheap, powerful, relatively small and it runs Linux...
>
> My Psion may finally meet its maker...
>
> http://www.reghardware.com/2007/10/0...ches_minibook/

Has potential definitely. Pity about the short battery life though.

tattygee@gmail.com wrote:
> On 10 Oct, 21:15, Gerald H wrote:
>
>>Cheap, powerful, relatively small and it runs Linux...
>>
>>My Psion may finally meet its maker...
>>
>>http://www.reghardware.com/2007/10/0...ches_minibook/
>
>
> Has potential definitely. Pity about the short battery life though.

Two weeks out of a pair of AA batteries was certainly a point in the
Psion's favour (and others -- the HPLX springs to mind).

But the phrase "and RM touted the laptop's 15s boot time" is even more
disappointing. 15 seconds may not sound like much, but compared to the
Psion it's /ages/. And that's just booting -- do you have to start up X,
KDE and all the apps after that?

Frank

Gerald H wrote:

> Cheap, powerful, relatively small and it runs Linux...
>
> My Psion may finally meet its maker...
>
> http://www.reghardware.com/2007/10/0...ches_minibook/

Psion replacement? The only PDA that worst the trouble is the iPhone. The
big problem : it's not open to external applications at present.

See a demo from Apple:

http://www.apple.com/iphone/gettings...uidedtour.html