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rickh	2007-11-29 , 23:58
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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens

Thanks for the addenda (I knew all about those of course ). I tried to compare the devices at a "virgin" level.

I maintain that the biggest flaw of the Pepper is its (absense of) battery life. And, sadly, the Pepper uses a 12 volts charger, which means that my large external battery (16 or 19 volts, as The Maker intended) won't work without high-level tinkering and soldering.

Sidenote: I find it particularly funny[*] that you write to "Look in /opt/pepper/jrex_gre/" and forget to mention that the Pad comes without any file manager. At all.

____[*] That's "funny" as in: "Really really sad that someone at Pepper thought this was a good idea".

You're right about the battery life compared to the N800. Although I tend to get around a half hour more than what you've been getting. It's comparable to other UMPCs unfortunately (which is what I would consider a Pad to be).

I tend to work a lot in an xterm, so the lack of a file manager didn't occur to me :-). You can install Nautilus easy enough though. And I guess that brings me to the point I was trying to make. For as old as Fedora Core 4 is, it's still a 2.6.x kernel base, and you have the full FC4 distro at your disposal to install pretty much whatever you need.

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