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Just wanted to share an interesting review of th
Just wanted to share an interesting review of the Pepper Pad, which as you may have guessed is the linux version of the Origami/UMPC. Costs $800.
Edit: Damn thats embarassing, I forgot the link. Sorry guys.
http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/html/47/6827.html
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..link? :)quote:Originally posted by puffarthur
Just wanted to share an interesting review of the Pepper Pad, which as you may have guessed is the linux version of the Origami/UMPC. Costs $800.
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I did a review of the Pepper a few months back- not a bad device at all: http://www.mobiletechreview.com/Pepper-Pad.htm .
What will be more interesting is the Pepper Pad Plus coming out this Summer which is smaller, less expensive and faster (I played with it last week). Here are some photos of the new Plus model and some other info:
http://www.mobiletechreview.com/ubbt...b=5&o=&fpart=1
Looks a lot nicer than the original pepper pad with some much needed features. I guess the question is whether a PDA-powered device (regarding the hardware, 533mhz AMD chip? only 20-30gig hdd?) can really suffice for some of the higher end functions that an origami can pull off.
Well, does it still run only especially adapted software? That was the main reason I didn't buy one of the original Pepper Pads. If it could just run any Linux software ...quote:Originally posted by Trev
Looks a lot nicer than the original pepper pad with some much needed features. I guess the question is whether a PDA-powered device (regarding the hardware, 533mhz AMD chip? only 20-30gig hdd?) can really suffice for some of the higher end functions that an origami can pull off.
I see they have added some important capabilities since 6 months ago - they now include a Java virtual machine.
They should really put some nice GPS nav software in the next one. That would make it very appealing to many more people.
pdagal - thanks for the link. Any info on battery life?
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