Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 15:48:25 09/09/01
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On September 08, 2001 at 18:28:07, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >>>Good, I am buying a new palm, but the 206mhz palm I wish to buy only comes with >>>Pocket PC 2002 OS. >> >> >> >>Roy answered well your original question. >> >>I want to add that Chess Tiger for PocketPC will be available at the end of the >>year, and that what you are planning to buy is not a "Palm". It's a PocketPC >>handheld, and has nothing to do with "Palms". >> >>You can use all the Palm software only on PalmOS devices (the OS developped by >>Palm inc). >> >>Looks like you are buying something without really knowing what's available! :) >> > > >Maybe he scrambled his keys on the keyboard, made the I a P, a P an A, an A an L >and a Q an M. Shit happens. > > >I like the IPAQ very much. I looks so slick. But I'm tormented by a luxury >problem. Going for the PalmOS on a brandnew 505 or with that awful PocketPC on >the slick IPAQ, which is on the market for sometime..... <gasp>. Now am I just >spoiled or really tormented.....? > >ps. "you're just an idiot" is *not* the right answer. > You're not an idiot. I've had a color Palm (33MHz Prism, overclocked to 42+) for nearly a year, and use it for lots of things besides chess. But this past week I just bought an iPAQ even though I shouldn't spend the money. [Being laid off from my job means less money ... but more time!] I must say, the iPAQ is a pleasant surprise so far. It has extras I didn't know about, like the ability to recognize cursive handwriting, a feature I missed from the Apple Newton. And I don't hate the GUI nearly as much as I'd feared. Yes, seeing a directory with 95 DLLs in it on my handheld is depressing after having used the Palm, but there are other positives. The iPAQ is faster and has much better sound. The resolution is higher (although I could've gotten the Sony Palm clone with even higher res for less money). My final reasons to buy the iPAQ were: 1. A sale of $440 US after rebates. 2. I will program for it in my upcoming home-based business (hopefully), so I can deduct the purchase cost from my taxes. 3. There are 2 good chess programs so far (Genius and Shredder/"Fritz") for it, and Tiger is coming soon. [9 months ago, none of these was available for the PocketPC, which is one reason I went with the Palm platform.] 4. I already had several CompactFlash cards and they're pretty useful on the iPAQ. 5. Although there is less software available than for PalmOS, there is still quite a lot of nice stuff for free or cheap. And more every week. But I would NOT part with my PalmOS handheld either!
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