Re: So Long LD
- From: Chip Anderson <b_anders*NOSPAM*@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:08:47 GMT
Verne Arase <VerneA@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:0001HW.C0FCF1B90019A188F0305530@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:41:40 -0500, Chip Anderson wrote
(in article <Xns980711539F9D9bandersbellsouthnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
Well, I managed to kill my LifeDrive. I had the LD in my left hand
and a full glass of iced tea held between the crook of my left elbow
and my torso. The phone rang, and as I bent over to lift it from the
coffee table with my right hand, the tea spilt over the LD, which was
playing a video at the time.
My LifeDrive also died - I had in in a pocket at an outdoor faire -
HOT! - and apparently just ambient humidity and perspiration were
enough to do it in.
Guess I'll have to use that stupid (much too tight) sleeve from now
on.
I curse PalmOne for designing the unit without an easily removable
battery. I think that if I could have removed the battery, I may
have saved the device. I turned it off but it still became very warm
and stayed that way until now it has become cool forever.
Well, liquids and electronics - especially not-just-water liquids -
are hard to survive.
Survival even if you could get the battery out would be iffy.
It's not my first bout with portable electronic devices and liquids
immersion, I'm sorry to say. All the devices I managed to pull the
battery from survived the experience.
Both Office Depots in town are out of LD stock. This caused me to
look around for other small portable computing devices. I used the
LD virtually as a small laptop. As luck would have it, I believe I
have found an even better replacement.
<http://www.mobiletechreview.com/sony_ux180/Sony-Vaio-UX180P.htm>
Wow. I thought the LifeDrive was expensive.
You sure you're not Bill Gates out here slumming :-)?
You're right, it ain't cheap. I could have bought four new LDs for the
price.
I am eagerly waiting for the FedEx truck to arrive with my new
purchase.
I'm sending my LD back to Palm for repairs, even though I've got a
replacement policy through Circuit City.
I figure I'll keep using my Palm waranty until the year's up, then
look around again and see if there's anything better in the PDA
market.
Hopefully something better will be out there. I'm not encouraged by
anything I've seen in the same price range - Win Mobile or Palm.
I shopped around, looking at various devices. The two local store I went
to were out of LD stock. The TX looked good but the lack of a handy voice
recorder turned me off of them. A friends son asked me to look a new
machine he had seen on Sony's website. It was the Vaio UX180p and I fell
in love.
As for the Sony - it's over half the price of my Powerbook 17 with but
a fraction of its capability (and screen real estate). I'm willing to
sacrifice a lot for portability, but not that much. So I won't be
replacing my laptop with some kind of sub-pocket PC. I just hope
someone somewhere starts producing a decent, survivable PDA. (My T5
recently went down for the third time last June at which time I give
up and bought the LD).
I've used the Vaio UX180p for a week and a half now and am very pleased.
With it's docking station, it functions as my office desktop. I now use my
old destop to run hold virtual servers as near real-time backups for the
mail and web servers there.
If I leave the office after lunch to hit the road, I pick it up and drop it
into its belt pouch. I use it the way I had begun to use my LD but the
ease of use is much enhanced with the keyboard. For instance, while I
could use grafitti well enough, bash shells are much easier to use with a
keyboard. Oh, and that nasty Blazer d/l problem is moot.
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Chip
Oderint dum metuant
-Lucius Accius
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