From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 21 22:29:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA16510 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 22:29:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA16499 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 22:29:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id XAA07669; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 23:38:56 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 23:38:56 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199708220538.XAA07669@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: Marco Molteni CC: chat@freebsd.org Subject: SUMMARY: Apple Newton MessagePad In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Marco Molteni writes: > Well, I really like -chat ! ;-) > Thanks to everybody who replied. > > There are two fronts here on -chat: > - those who suggested the USRobotics Palm Pilot > - those who suggested the Apple Newton MessagePad 2000 Just to confuse the issue, Newton is no longer owned by Apple; they've been spun off into their own company. On a probably related note, the Newto SDK is now available on Winblows as well as MacOS. > I choosed the Newton, because for what _I_ am going to do, the Palm > Pilot is too small. Anyway, I think the Palm Pilot is a very good toy > too, especially for the price. Yeah, I know what you mean. If the Pilot just had a single PCMCIA slot, or something like that. > If someone is interested in PDAs or Windows CEs and similar, the > august issue of Byte Magazine has a (biased :-( ) report: > "Hand-Helds get serious", in which they compare 10 hand-helds, from > the MessagePad to the HP 320LX to the Philips Velo 1 to the Palm > Pilot. I think you can find the article also online (www.byte.com). The WinCE's as a group are pretty lame: although they have bigger screens and a keyboard, most of them are not much more functional that the Pilot, but cost nearly as much as a Newton. Most of them have a PCMCIA/PCcard slot, but you can't run it on batteries, only when plugged into the wall. What a crock. > Thanks again to the wonderfully "not > normal" people on -chat. Yeah, this is a pretty fun group, isn't it? Even when we're arguing politics, it stays fairly polite. We kind of tend to be an eggheaded lot, though. ;^) > "This snakeskin jacket symbolizes my individuality and belief in personal > freedom". Snakeskin? For me, it would just symbolize my dislike of reptilians. They remind me too much of a VP I used to work for. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com