On Thursday 29 August 2002 15:47, Keith Winston wrote:
I have to disagree that the zaurus is crap. I was a Palm user for 5 years and while Palms are great, they are in a different class than the zaurus. I had no problems syncing my Palm to Jpilot, that was with Palm OS 3.x. I did have problems with a recent Sony Clie and Palm OS 4.x syncing with SuSE 8.
SO are you saying that the 105 won't properly sync? The cost ($99) sounds good to me if I can make it work with Suse,and frankly I don't need all the extra features of the Zaurus - I'm reallly looking for something to "turn it on and it goes" rather than getting myself into a long process of posting here for help with a PA- and then taking three days to port over my existing Palm info (which has dumped into evolution quite nicely!). NIck
It took some work, but my zaurus is syncing with the Qtopia desktop on SuSE 8 over the USB-ethernet connection. I also just picked up a Linksys WFC12 wireless CF card and can now roam around and web surf/e-mail from the zaurus. The OpenSSH port for the zaurus works great (client and server) so I can remotely control all my machines from the Z. The zaurus has some bugs, but it is a nice little machine and there are already hundreds of apps available for it (zauruszone.com). It took me about 3 days to convert all my Palm data over to zaurus format. If you don't want to do any tinkering, you may be happier waiting for the next generation of zaurus. If you put a little effort into it, though, the zaurus is the most powerful PDA you can buy today (IMO).
Best Regards, Keith