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Subject: Re: New Toshiba Pocket PC devices?

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 07:11:46 06/18/02

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On June 18, 2002 at 07:11:54, Adam Oellermann wrote:

>Anyone know anything about Toshiba's new PocketPCs? The new e740 apparently uses
>a 400MHz Intel Xscale chip, which seems likely to provide the kind of horsepower
>to make the PocketPC engines seriously dangerous. If the battery lasts long
>enough for a blitz game, that is...
>
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/25763.html
>
>Cheers
>Adam


I have heard that units based on the Pocket PC will not (cannot) make use of the
faster speed of the new CPUs until 2004, because of architectural differences in
the CPU and OS choices made by Microsoft.  I.e., the 400 MHz capability requires
OS modifications that PPC currently lacks.

The Palm OS will be able to take advantage of the new architecture sooner.

Here's one article:

http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=3679



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