I am quite crazy... I've been using one PDA or another basically as my primary computer at home, and since Squeak is a big part of my computing life, running Squeak was a neccesity. The first device that has pulled this off well IMHO is the Sharp Zaurus C760 and I've also used a Sigmarion 3 in the same way. They both have a high res screen- the Zaurus with a VGA (640x480) screen and the Sigmarion 3 with an even nicer 800x480 screen... Both run Squeak quite well and have other apps that make them useful as general computers as well with 400 MHz CPUs.
A friend is considering getting either a Dell Axim X50v or a HP iPAQ hx4700, both very new PocketPCs with VGA screens. Both have a very fast 624 MHz CPU.
But all of the devices I've mentioned are pretty spendy. You can get a Squeak capable machine for a lot less. Any PDA that runs Linux or a newer version of Windows CE, including WinCE 3.0+ for ARM, WinCE.NET 4.x, PocketPC 2000, PocketPC 2002, PocketPC/Windows Mobile 2003 and WM2k3 SE. There are non-ARM CPUs supported by Yoshiki's VMs IIRC, but they'd all be slower and probably flakier, with very little support happening these days for non-ARM WinCE devices.
You can get a lowly iPAQ 36xx or 38xx series for very cheap off of eBay, or perhaps a Dell Axim X5 Basic or Advanced, for $100-200. If you want to spend more, there are newer devices like I mentnioned.
Squeak runs pretty well on any device with a 400 MHz PXA255 and higher. I've not tried one of the even faster 625 MHz PXA273 (?) XScales, though I imagine it's very nice. I am taling about morphic around versions 3.2-3.4; if you're running MVC, you can run on a much slower machine, as low as 75 MHz, though few people run MVC squeak these days. For newer Squeaks, 3.6-3.7 with all the fixins, the faster the better.
Regards, Aaron Reichow
UMD Library :: (218) 726-6651 :: areichow@d.umn.edu
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Squeak Smalltalk wrote:
Hi,
I want to have a PDA that I can have in my pocket and that runs Squeak. Which one shall I buy in Europe?
Is someone crazy like me and runs squeak on a pda ?
Best Regards W.