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What portable computing devices have you had?
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MoridinBG
2008-04-26 , 12:33
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Simple question. What have you used until now. What do you think of the devices?
My list is rather long with lots of different devices. So:
Tablet PCs
Compaq Concerto
- Long, long ago. I think it was 1993 or 1994. 386, 4MB RAM, Greyscale. Win 3.11 for Pen. Laptops were a rare back then and nobody had even heard of tablets. I was astonished by the handwriting recognition, Notebook application (a real notebook!).
Toshiba Portege 3500
- More recent one. Awful case (it was cracking like a waffer)
HP tc4200
- My current laptop. Great for using as a notebook. I haven't used pen'n'paper in months
PocketPCs
Dell Axim X5 (400Mhz)
- 3 years ago. Again I was amazed by the fact that I had a 400Mhz computing device the size of my palm.
HP rx3115
- First WiFi device. Astonishing. I walk around and browse at the same time! Otherwise really underpowered machine.
Dell Axim X30 Mid
- PXA270 is still THE pda processor. Unmatched speed
Fujitsu Siemens Loox 610/BT
Big device. Really big. And the BT abtenna made it look like a phone (a big phone :-D) Died from overclocking. AFAIK this is the only PDA that can die from overclocking. I have did it on at least 6-7-8 other, but as it turned out later (I know for 2 o3 dead from overclock too) this specifik model has some problems with the mainboard
Dell Axim x51v
- 624Mhz CPU, 16MB 3D accelerator. Again fits in the palm. Quake 3 running while waiting for the bus. The CPU ran rock solid stable at 1014Mhz. In my palm. Lol.
Qtek S100
- My first and only PDA with GSM functionality. It turned out to be pretty handy.
Motorola MPx200
- Not really a PocketPC, but it runs Windows Mobile. It is invincible! You can flash it with a random series of 0 and 1 and it can be resurrected in minutes! Originally with WM2002 there are unofficial ROM all the way up to WM6.1
UMPC
Gigabyte U60
- My only (yet) UMPC. VIA C-7 is Slow. Really slow. It was a great machine, the idea is great, but the price... It's too big and expensive to be used as primary PDA, and again is too small (and slow) to be used for serious work. Entering something like one page of text with the built-in keyboard...
Internet Tablets
N800
- I had two of them for a few months each. Great machine. Big screen, and yet it is "pocketable". Linux (see the end), great for both browsing and multimedia. I would get another one soon!
Other
Privileg M800
- A wrist watch/phone. This is the device with the greates LOL-factor I have ever had. Nobody even suspects it's a phone until it rings! Touchscreen, Stereo BT, 128MB memory, stereo speakers, and is just a little bigger than a sports watch! (
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Sony PSP (Phat)
_ It has a CPU, Memory, Linux can run on it, so it counts. Astonishing graphics, alful web browsing, great screen. For games and movies - great. A little bit big for a MP3 player and I don't really like the music player.
I think that's all. Every one of them has it's own pros and cons, but the most usefull seems to be the HP tablet pc, as I use it is the most usable. Not the most mobile/cheap one, but I use it for almost everything I have used any of the other devices.
And about OSs, I have used Linux on all the devices that support it in usable way.
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