Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 12:18:58 10/26/02
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On October 24, 2002 at 20:03:57, Christophe Theron wrote: >On October 23, 2002 at 21:31:16, stuart taylor wrote: > >>It was spoken on this forum quite some time ago that Palm will be making a >>400mhz. handheld, when it gets into the ARM technology. >> Does anyone know if it will be available within the next two months? >> And, which companies will be making which features? >> >>I was thinking it well worth waiting for Palm to match Pocket computers top >>speed, rather than getting a P.C. now (I mean then, a few months ago). But Poc >>Comp. seems to have come up to 400 mhz. and I don't even know if Palm has yet >>made 200mhz! >>S.Taylor > > > >The Palm Tungsten, to be released in 4 days, will have a 175MHz ARM processor >(manufactured by Texas Instruments). > >The Sony NX70 (already released as far as I know) has a 200MHz ARM processor (I >don't remember which one). > >Both are PalmOS 5 handhelds. > >400MHz models will follow, I'm pretty sure. However, you should be aware that >some 400MHz PocketPC models are not faster than 200MHz ones, due to >architectures differences. > I just read a review of a 400 MHz (X-Scale) Pocket PC that benchmarked as being 10% _SLOWER_ than the equivalent model with the "normal" 206 MHz ARM! Until Microsoft builds support into the OS, those extra megahertz are just theoretical, apparently. Maybe by then Palm (or Sony) will already have a unit that does a REAL 400 MHz. >So you should maybe give up MHz comparisons and go a step further: test the real >speed of these handhelds yourself. > > > > Christophe
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