Hi
For anyone who is interested I am selling my eee pc 701 on ebay. The auction number is 190285207393
I have upgraded to the 904ha which is why I am selling it.
Please note the pc has easy peasy linux installed (ubuntu intrepid 8.10) instead of the xandros. There is also 1gb of ram instead of 512mb.
As I no longer have the original cds I cannot put the original os on it.
Please feel free to ask any questions.
Thanks,
Craig
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blog:http://www.cragnet.co.uk
I partly agree with Alan Chambers. Psion did an excellent job of
producing good compact software that did the essential wordprocessing,
spreadsheeting, notetaking and diary tasks well on a little screen,
and with a long battery life. Its choice of a landscape format screen
and a useable keyboard, in a robust clamshell format was also superior
to the square Palm scribble screen, only really suited to short tasks,
which, amazingly, became the fad, and drove the Psion machines and
their several similar-format competitors out of the market.
But although it was easy to transfer files between the P3 and Macs,
subsequent Psions lost that ability, which could have easily been
fixed in software, just as the Psion's flexible cable failure could
have had a hardware fix.
As well as the Nintendo DS, the Sony PSP has the basics to be a useful
pocketable PDA, but Sony have stalled on a keyboard. And Apple (or the
many peripheral makers) could increase the capabilities of a very
viable iPhone and iPod Touch with a real, external keyboard, instead
of stealing precious screen space for one: it could be a simple
separate bluetooth device, or on the inside of a clamshell case doing
double duty as a protection and possibly as an additional battery
holder.
Meanwhile, the >netbook< format which Asus resurrected with the EEE
has already started to lose direction, as contenders produce small LOW
COST formats rather than SMALL low-cost, ones, increasingly adding fat
(and cost) to their offerings with bigger screens and keyboards.
I used a Psion because it was no bulkier, and did a better job, than
my then 45 year old filofax, so I could carry it at all times. But it
held far more data, and was more easily updated, than the filofax; and
if I made an entry in the field, it could be quickly transferred to
the office computer without a need to rekey. However, when the P3
broke and I found the P5 could not transfer files so conveniently, I
reverted to the Filofax. Currently, I also use a small digital camera
as a portable copier and notetaker (particularly convenient with OCR).
I prefer separate devices that do their jobs well, to all-in-ones that
either do nothing well, or become overly complex, or both, and which
leave me totally limbless if any function fails and has to be
repaired. And I still prefer AA cells for them rather than having to
remember to charge nightly.
But, clearly, I’m in an extreme minority
Cyril Catt
Stéphane,
I have the following Psion machines: 3c, 5, Netbook and Netbook Pro. I bought a Netbook Pro off eBay with the intention of loading Linux on it. In the end, I actually managed to find so much useful software that will run under Windows CE.net 4.2 that I decided against loading the few beta versions of Linux I could find.
The only issue is, that a lot of the decent software for the Netbook Pro is not free. Anyway, here is what I have loaded:
SoftMaker Office Microsoft Office clone, which is almost 100% file compatible. Includes PlanMaker (Excel), TextMaker (Word) and Presentations (PowerPoint). You need to buy the Pocket PC version, which will also load on any Windows Mobile devices.
Route 66 GPS route guidance software, which I use with an external GPS receiver connected via the serial port.
Pocket Plan (Twiddlebit Software) Project Planner that can import and export to Microsoft Project.
UBD Australian City Streets Mapping software.
vxHpc Terminal emulation software (more advanced than the built-in Terminal package).
vxUtil (Freeware) Various networking utilities (ping, whois, etc.)
Skype Some display issues, as this is a special version I found on the web (you cannot download from the Skype site).
TCPMP (Freeware) The best media player, although video playback can be choppy.
Total Commander (Freeware) Use instead of Windows Explorer. Also acts as an FTP client.
GNUboy (Freeware) Gameboy emulator.
MameCE (Freeware) Arcade machine emulator.
PocketXpdf (Freeware) PDF viewer. The official Acrobat version will not load on the Netbook Pro.
PuTTY (Freeware) Another Terminal Emulator, supporting Telnet, SSH, as well as serial connections.
TightVNC (Freeware) Remote control desktop PCs and servers using compressed or standard version of VNC protocol
VNC Viewer (Freeware) Remote control desktop PCs and servers using standard version of VNC protocol
There is also a Flash plug-in for the built-in Internet Explorer, which appears to handle most websites OK. Don't bother with YouTube videos, as it is painfully slow.
My conclusion is that the Netbook Pro is an excellent machine for office and networking programs. I often use it if I want to travel light or need to carry out some troubleshooting with network based PCs or other equipment.
I have a Cisco WiFi PCMCIA card, a Socket CF/PCMCIA Ethernet card and an ANYCOM Bluetooth card, the latter allowing me to connect to the Internet using my HSDPA mobile phone wireless broadband on a Psion!
If you want to playback video or access streaming video on the web, then but a modern laptop or event just a PDA or smart phone. For MP3 playback, the Netbook Pro is fine.
I only paid around US$250, including postage for the Netbook Pro and I think it was money well spent. The same company is still selling the units on eBay today.
Regards,
Alastair
Att.: Alan Chambers
Re.: Psion 5 and Nintendo DS Lite In contrast to many others on this Digest I am personally not sad at all about what happened to Psion. It is a pitty and I agree that if they would have developed their hardware they would have created a "killer PDA", but it did not happen. So I moved on to other machines and solutions and never looked back. Yes, I did start this Digest and I still use my netBook (as I wrote recently) but that is not due to Psion themselves but more due to some software developers who developed software like ABP5 and Macro5. For several tasks it is still the best solution but otherwise I did move on. In the end machinery is there only to make our lives easier and today the newer equipment makes life considerably easier than the outdated EPOC machines.
Best regards,
Itamar