Author: paul bedrey
Date: 11:04:26 12/27/04
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On December 26, 2004 at 19:36:22, Mike Byrne wrote: >> >>Yes, its very strong. I played 60 games with ponder at game in 30'against >>various opponents on my laptop at 850 mghrtz. The rating I got was 2421 which >>was very close to their published number. My PDC was Palm Zire 21 which is the >>same processor as your Palm 31. I payed $79 for mine. Pretty impressive price >>performance. I've also played it about 50 games against my Cosmos and can only >>recall 2-3 losses. > >Excellent. I'm not sure about the statement: > >"My PDC was Palm Zire 21 which is the >same processor as your Palm 31." > > Perhaps that used to be true, but the Zire 21 here: > >http://www.palmone.com/us/products/handhelds/zire21/details.epl > >has a 126 Mhz TI ARM > >and the Zire I have is fitted with 200 Mhz Xscale Intel ARM processor > >http://www.palmone.com/us/products/handhelds/zire31/details.epl > > >Best, > >Michael I could have sworn it originally had an Arm processor. I'm not sure how 200 mhz in intel xscale stacks up against 126 Arm but if the scale is the same getting a faster processor AND color for $110 IS a real bargain! How many games do you get between charges? I get 6 games at 30'.
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