It doesn't look wonderful from what I've seen of it so far. The machine is certainly powerful but the battery life is liable to be fairly short especially if the peripherals eat a good bit of power. I was running the system in it's cradle and of course it managed to keep itself charged but you might need to carry around the charging module if you planned on running it at full power while you were using it as a terminal for another system for example. I'll give it a run down test and see how long it lasts but I'm thinking only a few hours with the backlight on and constant activity.
-Alex P.S. I'm quite willing to put up with low battery life given the things I can so easily do with the machine. The output of the charging unit is 5 V so it should be easy to hang some kind of fat battery off it if necessary. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hewitt Tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 2:17 PM Subject: Re: Quickie review of Zaurus SL-5600 Hewitt, How is the battery time? I recently was trying to decide between the 5600 and Palm's Tungsten C. Reviews led me to believe that battery time was awful on the 5600, so I went with the Tungsten C. Thanks Sean > I just bought a Zaurus SL-5600 PDA for use in my business. My primary use > will be connecting to client's LANs and making adjustments to routers and > gateways. The 5600 has 96 megs of RAM and includes both Compact Flash and > Secure Digital media slots. One of the reasons I bought at this time was > that ThinkGeek was offering a free SanDisk 802.11b CF card with the purchase > of the 5600. The SanDisk card works right out of the box. I was easily able > to configure the WEP encoding (128 bit) for my wireless acess point and get > on the air with it. The 5600 comes with Opera 6 and the included software > provides a KDE terminal which can be downloaded from the software CD. I > located Perl and Python kits as well as VNC. The VNC server/client are > particularly nice because you can run the VNC server on the 5600 and then > control the system from your PC. With VNC running you have a full keyboard > available. Even so the included mini-keyboard (Sharp calls it the "pick > keyboard") is surprisingly good. Because the system has both compact flash > and secure digital slots, you can plug in the wireless card and still use > the SD (secure digital) media to keep your programs. The flash memory slots > are meant to be used the way conventional disks are on a standard system. > This is quite a bit different from Pocket PC and Palm devices which usually > require some kind of transfer program and which are plain storage devices. > > I'm still exploring but so far I'm very impressed with the system. I believe > it's Debian based and it came with a fairly recent kernel > (2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix). > > -Alex > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
