well, the Zaurus in the dev model costs about $400 (as noted on the dev website) and the MyLINUX Pocket Linux Workstation which is $699 (no idea which speed CPU tho) the PLW has 2 PCMCIA slots, the Zaurus none, both have color screens, good linux distros, this is the PLW US ENGLISH WIDE BETA VERSION MYLINUX POCKET LINUX WORKSTATION INCLUDES: CUSTOM SUPERH 7709A-166MHZ. 128MBYTE SDRAM. 64MBYTE FLASH. 240X320 TFT LCD DISPLAY. 8BPP. TOUCH SCREEN. USB. IRDA. COMPACTFLASH. 2 PCMCIA SLOTS. SERIAL PORT. SERIAL CABLE. DEVOLOPER PORT. AUDIO SOUND. MONO SPEAKER. RECHARGEABLE BATTERY. POWER ADAPTER (HARDWARE). CDROM LINUX SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION. ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTATION (SOFTWARE). EARLY ADOPTER/WIDE BETA PROGRAM T-SHIRT now the Zaurus has this (orignally stolen from David D. Williams by Eugene Leitl) You can read the specs, but suffice it to say that it takes iPaq equivalent hardware (StrongARM 206Mhz, 32/64MB ram, etc.) and adds a pretty good, but not perfect, mix of built-in IO and features. The unit has a CF slot, SD slot (secure digital, basically just a memory-stick like slot for flash ram), headset/microphone jack, a built in keyboard (normally hidden), and an IO connector with both real USB and serial support. It has a removable Li-ion battery. It ships with a 1.18 JVM (full, with JDBC), full networking ready for ethernet, modem, or 802.11b, nice PDA apps (no spreadsheet yet), games, jpeg/gif/png viewer, Mpeg1 video and MP3 audio player, email client, and the Opera web browser. I added Konquerer by just downloading last night. Both support HTML 4.0, cookies, ssl, and Javascript. Probably also support Java, haven't tried. Perl, Python, Jikes, Pico, uEmacs, ssh, vnc, and much more are ported and installable already. The cradle USB connection can even be used as a point-to-point ethernet-like connection. This is how it does sync to the Win32 client, but it can also be used with masquerading (or a web proxy) through a Linux box. Production unit with 64MB ships early next year, dev unit with 32MB ram shipping now for $400. A CF 802.11b, new style with just a small antenna block protruding, is $189. Dev environment/cross compiler for both QTopia and Java are available for download. QT Embedded is normally expensive for commercial use, but open source is free and it's worth it in any case. The whole environment and PDA apps are open source, part of QTopia. <the end> so you gotta wonder..... why would anyone want a PLW except for the PCMCIA slots, but after 700 USD you could just get a small board system and attatch your own LCD(larger than 320x240 I hope) and HMD I hope to God and everyone that Sharp decides to make an industrial version or something that includes a PCMCIA slot (type 1,2,3) because it would be hard to find a VGA out method besideds a cheapo 386 with addon PC104 video card VNC'ed to the Zaurus, other than that..... the Zaurus makes THE perfect platform for beginners wearable anyways..... I luv the Zaurus ither way :) now.... when will THEO DA RAAT PORT OpenBSD TO IT! LoL that would be too much to ask :) -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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