Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on iPaq 3635?

[David Ness <DNess@home.com>]

Dan Cross wrote:
>
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>
> Yeah, the 3635 was the only one that J&R Computer World (in lower
> Manhattan) had with a color display, but they had quite a few when I
> was there yesterday (maybe 10).  The sales guy was explaining to some
> stock broker in a suit why the 3635 cost $100 more than some earlier
> model (perhaps the 3650).  Since I had to get back to work, and
> listening to people explain technical stuff to stock brokers is about
> as interesting as listening to Kit Kat commericals on the radio, I
> split without listening further (``Well, so it's like the old one, but
> missing this thingy...break me off a piece of that kit kat bar!'').
>
> The 3635 *does* come with an expansion sleeve, but it's the compact
> flash kind, which is pretty uninteresting.  There's no modem with it
> that I can detect.  I guess I kinda thought that they all came with one
> (sleeve), though, if for no other reason than that they wouldn't
> physically fit into the sync cradle without one.
>

The (fairly definitive) word from the iPAQ NGs is that the 3635 = 3650/3630 +
CF Expansion Sleeve + Two Pieces of Software. The approx. value of the
CF Sleeve is $50, so if you `value' the software at $50 it explains the $100
bump in price.

What you are perhaps confusing is that there is a `sleeve' (piece of hard plastic)
that comes with the 3630/3650 that has _no function_ associated with it other than
to (slightly) protect the device + to make it fit nicely into the sync cradle. I used
my null-sleeve for this purpose until I got my PCMCIA sleeve, but haven't ever used
it since. The other two sleeves, CF and PCMCIA, each have their place, although I
find that the extra power in the PCMCIA sleeve is particularly nice with my 1Gb
MicroDisk.