Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 11:45:38 09/15/01
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On September 15, 2001 at 14:18:36, Christophe Theron wrote: >On September 15, 2001 at 03:44:49, ERIQ wrote: > >>I was wonder which is the fastest and is Color worth getting?? > > >I have a Palm m505 that can be overclocked to 54MHz. It has color and is >acceptably fast. > >For Chess Tiger, it is 2.8 times faster than the standard PalmIII. > >However I think some Handspring Visor models are faster. Maybe the Visor Prism >(which is a color model) would be faster. > > I have a Visor Prism. It was the first 16-bit color model, one of the first running at 33 MHz, and was great when it was new (late '00) but it has its drawbacks. First, it is quite large (thick). Second, it has no flash memory but runs an older version of Palm OS [that can't be updated]. Third, the current trend is toward higher screen resolutions, which this unit does not provide. And fourth, this model does not support the new standard for memory expansion that the newest models from Palm, Sony, and HandEra do, so you can't add lots of memory and have it be handled in an industry-standard fashion (which treats it somewhat like disk space but is still better than having to _manually_ transfer files to/from RAM to use them). Overall, the Prism is already showing its age. If I were buying today, there's no question to me which model I'd get for color: a Sony Clie (model 610 or 710 in USA). Its 320x320 resolution is being supported by more and more apps yet causes no slowdown [and is gorgeous]; it supports memory sticks (which have come down in price a lot) using the industry-standard access model; it has a better screen than the m505, by most accounts. It is adequately small; it has a nice scroll wheel and a "back" button; it has Palm OS 4 inside, and is flash-upgradeable (I think). The 710 model can play MP3s (although I'd save $100 and get the 610). And finally, Sony is large, worldwide, will be around "forever", and may end up buying out Palm Inc.
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