Pepper tablet getting cheaper

Brad Fuller brad at sonaural.com
Thu Apr 20 18:14:22 UTC 2006


tim Rowledge wrote:
>
> On 20-Apr-06, at 10:21 AM, Brad Fuller wrote:
>
>> tim Rowledge wrote:
>>> People interested in a tablet device to run Squeak on might want to
>>> look at the pepperpad; it's a lunix based, XScale powered tablet with
>>> quite a bit of interesting stuff built in and it's now available for
>>> 'only' $650 via
>>>
>>> http://dealnews.com/deals/Pepper-Pad-Portable-Entertainment-Device-for-650-shipped-after-rebate/116547.html
>>>
>>
>> very interesting. Do you have one?
>
> Nope; it's a bunch of money that I'd be much more willing to spend on
> a WoodRat (http://www.woodrat.com/) since I simply don't need a
> portable device much anymore but do need some help with producing
> dovetails efficiently for my other business. A Newton was great when I
> was a department manager but since I stopped banging my head against
> that particular spiked wall life has been much simpler.
>
>> Anyone use one? I'm wondering if it
>> is underpowered.
>> Specs:
>> http://www.pepper.com/products/specifications.html
> A 624MHz XScale 270 is roughly equivalent to my RISC OS machine and it
> certainly won't be a blazingly fast system; Morphic sucks up cycles
> like you wouldn't believe and Smalltalk thrashes caches to dashes. The
> ol'RISC OS machine gets 32m bytecodes/sec and 1.2m sends/sec and about
> 25 Dorado in the full greenbook benchmarks so it really *should* seem
> very fast.
>
> It's unlikely it would make a good Croquet machine without a serious
> graphics card (which it doesn't have) but it would have been a lovely
> thing to run the exobox system on and it is quite close to what we
> wanted at Interval. It's just possible it would work as a portable
> Sophie device, but Tweak is not exactly showing itself to be amore
> efficient Morphic.
>
what's your take on the nokia 770? Anyone run squeak on this unit?

http://europe.nokia.com/nokia/0,,75023,00.html



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