For what it is worth, I agree with Mac. On the other hand, I have
used an old Casio Cassiopeia A-11 (Original Windows CE) with VNC over
a dial-up line. VNC may run slowly on Windows CE, but as the only
freely available, cross-platform means of accessing remote desktops
(Unix, Mac, and Windows), it is worth using. It works best if one can
open a command-line window (on Unix systems, an Xterm with a 5x6 font
works really well) and interact through that.
One need not buy a new Vaio or Libretto -- I had excellent luck using
VNC on an old Gateway Handbook486 running Windows95 -- the screen
(like that of my Cassiopeia) is grayscale, but the performance is
excellent. I've often wondered about getting an old 386 palmtop
and trying the DOS client on that (there was a DOS 5.0 386-based
palmtop that ran on 4 AA batteries -- it had PCMCIA 2.0 support, so
it would handle FLASH RAM and modems).
Good luck with whatever approach you take!
Bob Phillips
In an earlier message, Mac Reiter said
> 2. Windows CE units - every CE unit I have tested with, from ARM based
> Jornada HPC Pros (640x480) to new generation PocketPC MIPS 209MHz
> processors, is incredibly slow. Think seconds/frame instead of
> frames/second.
>
> 3. Any kind of real computer with real graphics and memory bus support will
> be an order of magnitude or more faster than any device from category 1 or
> 2 that I have been able to work with. Toshiba and Sony both make
> exceedingly small Intel machines capable of running Windows 98/ME, Linux,
> BeOS, or whatever feels good. If you can afford them, you will get a much
> more flexible solution that feels a *lot* better to use. On the downside,
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