Author: Adam Oellermann
Date: 07:42:59 06/18/02
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Thanks for the info. I find myself increasingly weighing in on the Palm side of the equation. I bought a palm because I'm cheap, and the PocketPC price tags scared me off. However it looks like development for PalmOS is an objectively good choice; the Palm guys have a great roadmap that will take them into headlong competition with the high-end PocketPCs, while still winning the "mass market" of cheap, less powerful devices with long battery lives. Cheers Adam On June 18, 2002 at 10:11:46, Roy Eassa wrote: >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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