From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3AE5E3BE.26A0C81B@Home.Com> From: David Ness MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Plan9 Forum <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on iPaq 3635? References: <20010419143002.3D73819A5C@mail.cse.psu.edu> <200104191627.MAA13046@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3AE5D9F2.98F450CD@Home.Com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:36:14 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8e54d8ea-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Dan Cross wrote: > ... > > 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.