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Originally Posted by Alexander
... and OSX today is more *nix than ever before 
Chaos, what do you think about the new Zaurus announced to be released soon? Do you have any more info on it? |
Yes, that's one of the reasons I like OSX so much. BSD base, nice GUI overtop. I've been using Linux for years (over 5 years now, since I was around 10 - yes, I'm only 15, but don't discount my abilities or knowledge because of age), so I'm very at home on a command line (side story: I once used only a command line for a week, as a sort of challenge for myself. Lynx for web, mutt for mail, BitchX for IRC, emacs for text... I even had DVDs playing in that time using mplayer and the Linux kernel's framebuffer. It was pretty awesome.).
But of course, using OSX, one rarely needs to hit the terminal. I still do, for SSHing into my other boxes, and a few other things, but having the nice GUI is awesome. One of the things that comes to mind about OSX is spell-checking in almost everything, if you turn it on. Like this post, spell-checked (on the fly) by OSX. Oh, spell-checking isn't actually one word (it's underlined by a dotted red line, indicating error in spelling). Very nice stuff.
As far as I know, there's no confirmed details on any new Zauri (the generally accepted plural of Zaurus). There have been a few rumours, but nothing really substantial.
Personal guess....
It'll be a clamshell, like the other C-series. Probably will have some form of built-in Wifi. Japanese only (as Sharp has pulled out of the US market for the Zauri). Of course people will import them like stink. :P Possibly an updated processor, maybe more around 600 Mhz (I believe the new Dell Axim uses a 600 and something ARM processor? Possibly the same one.). Of course it'll have the usual compact flash and SD/MMC slots, and probably the nice VGA 640x480 screen.
I've never actually played with a clamshell Zaurus (I own one of the "standard" ones, the 5600), but from the pictures I've seen, reviews I've read, and comments I've read, they're nice. And very popular in Japan.
(Sorry if this post seems long-winded and awkward in some places. I'm tired and just about to go to sleep, so I can't think entirely straight.)