RE: What to do with a H3135?

Francois,

Thanks for the info.

>I picked one up too as an inexpensive toy to play with and experiment with
>familiar (already have a color iPaq, couldn't quite justify 2 color ipaqs,
>particularly now at $599 each - used to be $499 a year ago). There is a
>person who updates ram and rom on the iPaq (dont have the link handy), and
>you can get up to 128mb ram and 32mb of rom. I think 16mb will only work on
>a non X distro.

Ok. In that case, I'll probably use the iPaq without X (a great deal
for an embedded device!) for an MP3 player application, so I may not
need to upgrade the memory.

Seems a shame that you get quite a lot of functionality in that 16M
with WindowsCE (email, web browsing, media player, solitaire, pocket
office...) but far less with Linux... I guess we've still got a ways
to go...

> I'm about to try it myself, so I'm not 100% sure.

Great. Can you post your results so the new folks with just a 3100
in hand can learn from your experience?

>You can
>always use the CF pack, but then you loose some pocketability. Having the
>ram/rom upgrade (which will happen on mine in the very short term) pretty
>much liberate you of the expansion slot, except when you need 802.11, wired
>ethernet or a modem (all of those really require the additional battery life
>the PCMCIA pack gives anyway).

Right. This H3135 will probably be tethered via ethernet and power,
so that probably won't be an issue.

Down the road I'll likely get a bigger unit with color and run X and
an 802.11 cardvto use as a handheld.

>My 2 cents on the serial cable: buy one. It's less than $30, well worth it.
>After all, you only paid $149 for your 3135, $200 less than MSRP.

True, true... The iPaq cable does comes apart quite easily, tho, so
if anybody does have the pinout for that little connector, I'd be
able to make the cable in a few minutes.

-dean
Received on Wed Aug 22 10:22:48 2001