Hi all,
I'm still making regular use of my Jornada 720/728. It works great for my mostly text based uses. I don't do any gaming or video streaming.
For awhile I was stymied with PowerPoint type presentations, until trying Margi Presenter-to-Go
(CF card adapter
). It provides full screen VGA, with limited animations.
(Create the PPT with PowerPoint XP, and then use the Margi converter to convert and preview on the desktop computer.
)
For me, the remaining weakness in the Jornada 7xx
(and many other PDAs
) is the lack of a good internet browser, and inability to provide VPN security.
With those things in mind, I've done some experimenting with Jlime. Unfortunately, the readily available browsers are also a bit dated for SSL usage. It probably is possible to set up VPN under Jlime. But it may not be worth the effort, since the browsers are not accepted by desired HTTPS sites.
Another option that I've given thought to
(but have not tried
), is to use the Jornada 7xx to control a Raspberry Pi device, via RDP or VNC. Conceptually, the Raspberry device would handle WiFi, VPN Security, and run a superior browser
(
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/web-browser-released/), all with minimal taxing of the PDA device CPU.
The Raspberry Pi is quite small, and could be carried as an accessory, for use when needed, with connection to it via a wired Lan card plugged into the J 7xx PCMCIA slot. Does anyone have such a system up and running? If so, please steer me to the thread.
A cleaner solution would be to have the equivalent of a Raspberry Pi built-in to a CF card adapter, like the Wifi adapters that work with the J 7xx, but with advanced onboard computing functions. Perhaps something like this
http://www.cdatas.com/index1.html would lend itself to providing the internet browsing and security features, in a plug-in adapter. What do you think?
Dave
Edited by Dave Wurm 2017-04-25 7:38 PM