Cheap, portable PC/PDA required!

[ehasler]

Can anyone recommend a cheap, portable PC or PDA with network (RJ45) connection and a built in modem, with a decent web browser and mail client?

I'm currently working in Manchester for two weeks, and need to access my email, however the only PC I've got access to is an old Sun workstation, with an old version of Netscape that doesn't work with yahoo and keeps falling over when I access PH!

I don't want to spend too much though, so can't go for a pukka laptop.

Is there anything out there that would do the job?

Thanks!

[pmanson]

ebay? You may be able to pick up a refurbished laptop.

[ehasler]

Ideally I'd want something in the next day or so, so don't really have enough time to bid for something on ebay.

[zumbruk]

ehasler said:

Ideally I'd want something in the next day or so, so don't really have enough time to bid for something on ebay.

Morgan Computers.

www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/products2.asp?CategoryID=11

[Bodo]

ehasler said:

..., however the only PC I've got access to is an old Sun workstation, with an old version of Netscape that doesn't work with yahoo and keeps falling over when I access PH! ...

Do you have root rights on that machine?
-> pull yourself a Firefox, and install it; it's available for Solaris too.
http://texturizer.net/firefox/download.html

(you probably even don't need root rights, it may be possible that you just uncompress your download into a subfolder in your /home/~ directory, and start it via script from there - RTFM on that one )

[zumbruk]

Firefox for Solaris is very good. I use Suns exclusively at home and run it there. I'm afraid I have no idea if it's possible to do a non-root install - I obviously have root access to all my own boxes.

[Bodo]

zumbruk said:

Firefox for Solaris is very good. I use Suns exclusively at home and run it there. I'm afraid I have no idea if it's possible to do a non-root install - I obviously have root access to all my own boxes.

Could you try it? I know it works from my USB-stick on w2k machines at uni and on HP-UX from ~/firefox at work, since I have no root-rights there.