Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 23:31:12 09/20/03
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On September 20, 2003 at 16:25:42, ERIQ wrote: >A rating list would be nice. Just wanted to get an idea of the strength of the >top palms ie. sony 400mhz vs. ipac 400mhz. windows ce. Rating is important but >so is battery life. I thought "oh dear, this question's been done to death 84 times before" but it's actually a much more interesting one than I thought :) At the moment there's no doubt; the PocketPC programs are stronger. This is solely because there are (currently) no programs written specifically for the ARM processors used by the new Sony and Palm machines; both Tiger and Genius are written for the old Dragonball processors which the ARM processors can emulate (quite impressively, I must say). That will change! Battery life is now not really an issue; with my Zire 71 I get a good 6 or 8 hours between charges, which is pretty impressive, and I believe PocketPCs are now similar (they used to be appalling). Somebody else who actually has one will have to give you an estimate of the PocketPC programs. However, I am a 2000 player and, on my Zire 71, Tiger beats me more often than not but I beat Genius more often than not. (Scientific or what? ;) Alastair
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