Zaurus SL-5600/SL-5500 Comparison Whitepaper

Bill Kendrick writes "A cool as the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 Linux-based PDA is, there are definitely some quibbles about battery life, software and syncing. Fortunately, it seems the folks at Sharp and TrollTech have been working on it for the new 5600 model. Sharp just posted a whitepaper (PDF) comparing the two models. (Newer kernel, no more root-privs-for-everything, JFFS2, dropping slow XML for PIM stuff, and USB-IO syncing, to name a few.)"

Memory Area

[10Ghz]

Program Memory (Work area)

SL-5500: 28.1MB
SL-5600: 29.1KB

Huh??

Strange

[Anonymous Coward]

Anybody notice that the entire god damned front page is only stories from Taco? Did his wife kick him out of bed or what?

Great advantage

[gmuslera]

now it have 4 new themes! Finally something that I can say clearly that is better in the new model!

Re:Memory Area

[AlCoHoLiC]

Oh boy, don't you know that "29.1 kb ought to be enough for everybody" ?

Re:I can't wait!

[kotj.mf]

Exactly. Slap a CF 802.11b card in there, and surf the web on the crapper. The Information Superhighway is truly upon us.

And if I drain the battery doing that, I've got more problems than I thought...

Mine's been...

[0x7F]

sitting unused in the docking cradle for a while now. Let's check up on it.

tpope@marge:~% ssh snowball
Linux snowball 2.4.6-rmk1-np2-embedix #11 Tue Oct 29 14:43:28 CST 2002 armv4l unknown
root@snowball:~# uptime
10:34pm up 70 days, 17:23, load average: 4.00, 4.00, 4.00
root@snowball:~#

Wow. Let's see a PocketPC do that!