On Thu, 29 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> while, but when I was looking at them, they were horrificly overpriced
> compared to x86 systems, and I doubt that has changed much. While they
Did you price up a x86 system with a 250Mips or greater processor, 64MB of
RAM, a 2MB video card, both a PCINE2K card and a Tulip card, built in 4Mb
IRDA, a video capture port, a video output port, a 16 bit sound card with
a built in mike, speaker, line in, line out, handset, and telephone
connectors for getting the audio in and out, a nice large volume control
built into the case, serial, parallel, PS2 keyboard and mouse ports, a
decent quality keyboard (without the Windoze key) and mouse, a CPU usage
LED built into the front of the case, firmware which allows netbooting and
booting from ROM, a software controlled switch on the case you can use for
controlling it when you don't have a keyboard attached, which comes with
Linux preinstalled, all in a very cool looking, smaller than notebook
sized case which you can mount both horizontally and vertically, generates
virtually no noise if you turn the fan off (it isn't needed most
of the time), comes with Linux pre-installed out of the box (admittedly
CCC/Corel/HCC/Rebel's distribution isn't great and was even worse in the
past, but TitanVI is much better and we (Zereau) will be shipping our
Winder's with it and possibly offering upgrades to it (certainly selling
CDs with it on), is also available in a "two machines in a slim rackmount
case" form, is available with a SCSI controller, will soon be available
with a built in modem or ISDN, can run off a 12VDC power supply, and
consumes about 13 Watts of power? The NetWinder isn't just a PC, and you
can't compare it directly to one.
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