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Those prices really are crazy.
3 or 4 years ago I established my (unsellable) stock with 2 brand new 48GX's and 4 brand new 32sii's for future use. Another GX (with MK and many other programs) and 2 other 32sii's are used daily. I don't even think about buying a 33 or a 50. The feeling and the keyboard is "essential" for me.
It has been said many times: shame on HP! How can they discontinue "good" products without introducing equivalent or even better products?
Patrick
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If you currently use TDS or SMI surveying cards, they only fit into a GX, nothing else will do. That is the simple reason why used and new GX prices have stayed where they are for so long. Jumping to newer technology Pocket-PC and other data collectors is about $3000 minimum, which makes a new $699 GX cheap by comparsion. Now aren't you glad you aren't a surveyor?
Shame on HP? Shame on NEC for not wanting to make the Saturn processors, that fab line is history. Everything has a life cycle. I don't hear anybody complaining they can't buy a new LaserJet II or a Vectra ES12 ;^)
Edited: 3 Dec 2006, 4:42 p.m.
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Yes a package does exist (www.pssllc.com), and it is much better than the old TDS or SMI packages. It even runs circles around the $3000 packages mentioned. No need to get a Windows Mobile POS that has a touch screen. . . about the only thing those are good at is scratching and breaking! :-)
TW
