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- From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Re: Your chance to spend someone else's $$$!
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 14:55:56 GMT
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- In article <1992Dec22.042540.22754@vpnet.chi.il.us> cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka) writes:
-
- >I've played with the HP95, the Psion 3, and the OZ-9600.
- >
- >If you had to drop $850 on pocketable computer hardware in the next
- >week-and-a-half, what would _you_ get? Where would you get it?
-
- How pocketable does it have to be? The three machines you mention are
- all roughly shirt pocket sized, but there are larger machines, most of
- which run MS-DOS and have large keyboards that are can be touch
- typable. It really depends on what you're looking for, there is no one
- best machine.
-
- The HP has the most internal RAM of all the machines and has the
- cheapest and the greatest amount of online card storage available.
- It's as cheap as $200/MB for SRAM (max 4MB), and $100/MB for flash (max
- 10MB). Runs MS-DOS (this may or may not be a feature). For $850 you'd
- have about 2MB of storage, minus system RAM.
-
- The Psion has a larger keyboard, display, and very possibly better
- built in software. The latest model has a spreadsheet built in.
- Storage is more expensive, and only Psion makes modules for it.
- Doesn't runs MS-DOS (this may or may not be a feature). SRAM is
- 512KB/$300 (max 1MB), flash 1MB/$300 (max 2MB). For $850 you'd have
- about 1.25MB storage, minus system RAM.
-
- I don't know much about the Sharp at all.
-
- I have the HP, this is in part because of my previous experience with
- Psion. Psion Organiser (an earlier machine much different from the
- Series 3) storage modules actually became more expensive over time, and
- third party support in general was poor. The machine itself is quite
- solid and has good software. When I wanted to upgrade, I found that
- for the cost of just the serial adapter and a 256KB flash module, I
- could buy an HP with 512KB. Current Psion S3 aren't quite so bad but
- Organiser prices still are.
-
- Unfortunatly Psion continues to use proprietary storage modules and
- serial adapters. However, third party support seems to be improving
- for Psions. So it depends, if you want lots of storage I suggest
- a PCMCIA based machine like the HP. Otherwise the Psion has a lot
- going for it.
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