Thread: Just bought a Sharp Zaurus SL-C1000
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richm is offline richm
2006-02-20 , 16:18
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Originally Posted by Legodude522
I got my Sharp Zaurus today! Just in time for 1src chat. My precious is sooo sexy.

I'm uploading pictures now. About 35 of them. I will write my thoughts on it later. It works great! It's a brick but it's no doorstop LifeDrive! hehe. Linux ^_^

So sexy I uploaded all pictures now. http://photobucket.com/albums/a267/Legodude522



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Update:
Speed is decent. There is some lag. I'm ok with it because it does quite a bit. LifeDrive will lag just doing little tasks. The Zaurus does what it is meant to do an well, a laptop replacement. It got an awesome office suite on it. I don't mind it's brickiness, I wear jeans and it's fine. Performance hitches are worth it except for v

I am quite satisfied with it except... video playback sucks compared to a Palm or PPC. I'm gonna try other encoding settings and try to get a sweet spot. I can get it to play good, but not TCPMP amazing. More like using mmplayer, lol. There is a TCPMP port coming out eventually, I will get it right away. For now, this is sufficient.

I don't have a CF wifi card yet so I can't test web browsing. It does have Netfront and Opera.

Oh, and so you guys know, there is no soft reset button

Please post what you want to know and I will write a review.

The first thing you want to do is flash in the Cacko ROM. ;-)

It includes a new kernel with a bttv drivers for *vastly* improved multimedia performance. You can rid your videos at full speed with no skips. I suggest ZPlayer and/or Kino as the media players to use. Much better than the Sharp one.

Additionally, Cacko cleans up the interface quite a bit, adds support for innumerable WiFi and Bluetooth cards, gives you a bunch of handy little applets for managing swap, overclocking, etc, and just plain beats the pants off of the Sharp ROM.

http://www.oesf.org/forums is the place to start. :-)

- Rich