Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 01:25:47 05/31/02
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On May 30, 2002 at 09:01:44, bryan whitby wrote: >With the excellent chess programs now available for the Pocket PC and Palms, >have Novag and Saitek both blown it by releasing monochrome touch screen chess >computers or will the price facture save them ? To give a reasonably non-partisan opinion :) I think the Internet made dedicated computers obsolete. This shows, as they've struggled for years with a lack of new concepts and endless variations on the same core programs; to be frank I'm surprised Novag and Saitek haven't gone under or at least stopped making new machines. Now no computer is an island, entire in itself, and the connected PC enormously expands what you could do with chess at little extra marginal cost; I assert that most dedicated computer owners, at the time when the tide turned, already had a PC. The dedicated handhelds are a brave try but, really, will only sell on ignorance; the older Handsprings are almost being given away in cornflakes packets here and, as has been pointed out, there are rafts of used PDAs on sale in forums such as eBay and Loot - I've sold a couple myself that way with great ease, getting a considerable number of bids for each sale. I'm pretty sure anyone knowing that a better solution all round* exists for less than £20 extra if they have a PDA, and possibly less than £100 in total if they don't, would not hesitate to go that way. Alastair *better user interface, greater playing strength, ability to save games, possibility of upgrades ...
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