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   > Probably get even more from something with an ARM or perhaps StrongARM
   > microprocessor.  It wouldn't have the same performance, but would be
   > adequate for my needs.  Of course I'm comparing apples with oranges:
   > notebooks with palmtops. I don't think anyone makes the machine I want
   > though :-/

   Well, I came this -><- close to buying a palmtop instead of this
   subnote, since there are plenty of nice little MIPS machines that
   run NetBSD to chose from here in Japan. However, they are not much
   less expensive and are much more limited in their capabilities
   (slower, less memory, can't run i386 binaries like Netscape, etc.)
   Also, their keyboards are all too small to touch-type on.

   If you need something for serious work, you want a "real" laptop,
   not a palmtop. (Again, note that the L2 is the very smallest machine
   I consider suitable for serious work, though if you can live with a
   smaller keyboard there are slightly smaller ones out there. None has as
   big a display, though.)

   cjs
   -- 
   Curt Sampson  <cjs@cynic.net>   +81 90 7737 2974   http://www.netbsd.org
       Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light.  --XTC



Sharp makes a Linux based palmtop called the SL-5500.  A friend of mine
picked one up, along with a D-Link wavelan CF card at Best Buy in April.
It uses a Strongarm processor, runs a Linux system, comes with a port of
Java and uses a port of Opera as a browser.  The official site:

		   http://more.sbc.co.jp/slj/index.asp

As a palmtop goes, it is pretty neat, very fast and quite colorful.  If it
ran NetBSD, it might be a nearly perfect palmtop.




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