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Subject: Re: which OS is faster for handheld computer, Palm or Windows mobile?

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 19:08:25 12/16/04

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On December 16, 2004 at 03:08:17, George Sobala wrote:

>On December 15, 2004 at 21:45:20, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>On December 15, 2004 at 11:19:01, emerson tan wrote:
>>
>>>It seems that palm operating system is more efficient than windows mobile, palm
>>>handheld computers battery last one to two weeks, whereas windows mobile powered
>>>last two to three days on the same processor, so it means a lot of the
>>>processing power for goes to the windows system.
>>>
>>>Hiarcs on palm is also way way above pocket Fritz 2(shredder) on windows.
>>
>>On what basis do you say that?  Do you own PF2 or Palm Hiarcs?
>>
>>Just curious.
>>
>
>From the Hiarcs website:
>
>Palm Chess Hiarcs v Pocket Fritz 2            63 - 37     (63%) - implies Palm
>Hiarcs is about 95 Elo stronger than the latest Pocket Fritz 2.

I went over the games and in the 3 losses I looked at PF2 would never play the
book moves if set to "best" play - so I am not 100 convince that was a fair
test.  Plus the few games are statiscically insignificant anyway.



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