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Alas, my old and faithful Toshiba E740 finally gave up the ghost. Screen went dark, and was un-resurrectable.
After moping around for a month, I finally found something in Ebay: An HP Ipaq E4705. Runs WM5, high-res screen, dual card slots (just like the tosh!) and better wifi, bluetooth, and a 624mHz processor. $225.
Compared to the Dell Axim x51V, this was a good alternative - the specs are comparable, and the HP was going for less than the Dell on ebay (at least, during the weeks I watched for it).
Sure, they promised it was "new" and it really wasn't quite. There was a boat-load of stuff taking up protected storage space (which I ran out of quickly), and I had to flash the bios to get an old-fashioned hard reset to happen, but I've been generally very happy with it.
And yes, the full VGA screen is worth it.
So I'm restarting over with what to put on such a box - so far I've got:
Isilo 5
Mobipocket
E-sword
Nethack
And I'm still deciding between Superdoku and SkinzSudoku.
As I think about it some more, I'll probably put on Midnote, Microsoft Reader, and maybe the Amiga emulator.
-bjc
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