On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 07:58:25PM -0800, Dirk Ouellette wrote: > I told my wife to get me this one from BestBuy as the 2 rebates add up > to $50 and that leaves it well within her price range at $84. It uses > Palm OS 4.1 software so I assumed it would work well. Thanks for all > advice.
The one minor disadvantage of the Clie's is that they expand with memory sticks rather than SD/MMC. You probably won't be adding Bluetooth or WiFi in the memory slot with the Clie. This kinda limits the device to syncing with your PC and serving the intended purposes. Wireless networks add a whole lot of future possibilities which nobody at Palm dreamed anyone might do with the thing (similar to the incredibly cool if pointless hack to turn a Palm into a universal IR remote..) This may not be a factor for you though, given that pretty much all of the USB memory card readers are now quite inexpensive and nearly all of them work flawlessly in Linux. (It's odd, Bluetooth MMC is very cheap but WiFi MMC is currently woefully expensive. WiFi CF is relatively cheap, but Bluetooth CF is as expensive as WiFi is in MMC format! Palms use SD/MMC, PocketPCs use CF.) The major disadvantage that applies only to me is that Sony uses a different font than Palm does, and Sony's font lacks the boldness which makes the tiny Palm font so readable for me. _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
