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H/PC Philosopher Posts: | 394 |
Location: | Portland, Oregon | Status: | |
| I was surprised to see this many units in a single auction. None of them have batteries, so they're being sold as-is, but some of them may work.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-10-Hewlett-Packard-Jornada-728-serie...
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Subscribers H/PC Philosopher Posts: | 439 |
Location: | Austria | Status: | |
| Wow, it is indeed rare to find a J728! But yeah, paying lots of money, needing to get batteries, expensive shipping, etc.. makes it a bit uninteresting to me sadly.
Hopefully I will get a J728 sometime though, I'd love to have a rather complete HP collection!
Looking into getting a 320LX soon, then I'll have 320LX - 620LX - Jornada 820 - Jornada 720. (360LX and 660LX are just software upgrades anyway, and 680LX is also pretty similar to 720) |
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Global Moderator H/PC Guru Posts: | 7,188 |
Location: | USA | Status: | |
| I don't know...lots of difference between HPC2000 and HPC Professional...also the 720 is ARM rather than SH3 like the older Jornadas...another big difference when it comes to software availability...
The best part is even though all the devices are broken or faulty, the ROM boards would fit into any 720 essentially turning them into a 728...a 2-minute swap job. And 728 ROMs are hard to find. |
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Subscribers H/PC Philosopher Posts: | 439 |
Location: | Austria | Status: | |
| Great idea!
I hope someone buys the whole lot and does that! I'd absolutely take a ROM board and upgrade my Jornada!
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Moderator H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 2,812 |
Location: | Choking on the stench of ambition in Washington DC | Status: | |
| Rich, if you swap out the ROM, are you also getting 64mbs RAM? Or is that a different component?
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Global Moderator H/PC Guru Posts: | 7,188 |
Location: | USA | Status: | |
| All the same board...and actually isn't that really the only difference between the 720 and 728? More memory I mean? Same as the 680 versus the 690 models... |
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Moderator H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 2,812 |
Location: | Choking on the stench of ambition in Washington DC | Status: | |
| You know, you're right. I got fixated on the rom vs ram thing. Though, doesn't the J728 have an odd app or two (missing in the J720 )? Given my memory troubles, I'm obviously not the guy to ask
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Global Moderator H/PC Guru Posts: | 7,188 |
Location: | USA | Status: | |
| No, not really...they are about the same. PIE 4.0 versus PIE 4.0.1...insignificant changes there. No other application differences. The 728 came with a higher capacity battery I believe...again, another "so what."
The bigger memory makes for better buffering when web cruising...that is the biggest advantage that I see. Also I liked the silver colored top rather than the old blue or purple one (I could never tell). |
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Moderator H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 2,812 |
Location: | Choking on the stench of ambition in Washington DC | Status: | |
| I had no idea the ROMs were so easily replaceable.
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Global Moderator H/PC Guru Posts: | 7,188 |
Location: | USA | Status: | |
| Yeah, just remove a couple screws, lift the keyboard, and swap out the ram boards....gets no easier than that. |
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H/PC Elite Posts: | 504 |
Location: | United States | Status: | |
| What's interesting is that about half appear to be ABB units. This international English keyboard was sought after for those who preferred all of the keys to be the same width (rather than the wider letters of ABA). |
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Moderator H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 2,812 |
Location: | Choking on the stench of ambition in Washington DC | Status: | |
| My first J720 was the internat'l version, bought in Slovenia, $820usd. Went back and forth numerous times with the nice fellow who was selling the keyboard skins. He kept sending the US version and wondering why it didn't fit
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Global Moderator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 12,662 |
Location: | Southern California | Status: | |
| The winning (only ) bidder got them for less than I paid for one 728 back in 2006. ('Course, mine did include the battery. )
You have sharper vision than I do, isotherm. I couldn't tell the difference between any of the keyboards (other than the one way in the back, whose keyboard I can't make out at all ). |
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