[TriLUG] "Palm" devices

[Michael Thompson]

My Zaurus does both, and the keyboard hides away nicely behind the
button panel when not in use.  The thumb board is much nicer than
handwriting recognition when doing things at the command prompt, like
running "vi" or ssh-ing into the office to restart apache on your
squirrelmail server....  :)  I purchased an external ir keyboard for the
Z as well, it helps a lot when I want to use it as Linux workstation
instead of a pda...

$.02

--mike


On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 21:46, Christopher L Merrill wrote:
> I've been using a Grafitti-based (Palm) device for at least 5 years,
> probably more like 7.  IMO, keyboards are cumbersome and a waste of
> precious real-estate on small form-factor devices.  But I also think
> it's a very personal choice.  You've gotta try both and see what you
> like.
> 
> Brian McCullough wrote:
> > At last month's meeting, Lisa, Chris and I had a short conversation
> > regarding the different merits of "grafitti" and "thumb boards."
> 
> 
> 
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