Heh, I have the 880 model, which has a USB port.  I do agree about the
touchscreen though.  It gets quite annoying after a while.  Having the
PCMCIA port and CF has been really awesome.  On ubid, the 880's recently
went for $350.  I would recommend that, if only for Ubid's warranty.

----- Original Message -----
From: "josh" <dorqus@bsdfreek.com>
To: <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: z50 alternatives (was:Re: X on Z50 working)


> Tom Gottheil wrote...
> > Also, the NEC Mobilepro is an excellent machine.  It's simialr to the
Z50,
> > and it's quite cheap (or at least was) on Ubid.  I'm not sure if they
have
> > any more, but it is really very nice.  Full-size keyboard, and it runs
> > NetBSD great.
>
> I have a NEC Mobilepro 800 which is nice.  It will do 800x600 vs
> the z50's 640x480.  I'm using an Orinoco Wavelan card and I have a
> 256mb CF card in it.  Works great as a portable terminal, much
> quieter than a laptop, lighter, and longer battery life.
> The few things I don't like about it are the lame touch screen,
> which has mixed accuracy, and the lack of a true screen blank/suspend
> (which I know is not an option - the suspend that is)  and the lack
> of being able to use a USB mouse (or serial mouse for that matter) I
picked
> mine up for $300 sealed in the box on ebay.com.  I highly recommend
> ion as a window manager, as it truly does not need a mouse for
> anything (I use the mouse when I have Netscape displayed back
> from another machine on my local network)
>
> --
> josh