Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 16:13:33 03/11/05
Hi all: Just coming back from my trip to USA. And coming with a sad experience: Tungsten T3 Palm unit, though fast and roomy in memory, is NOT the solution for a chess player that want to have a chance to play out of his home. To go to the point at once, what's the use of a 400 Mhz processor and 64 Mb of memory and programs so powerfull as Tiger or Genius or Shreder if one hour and half after you begun the game the batery becomes almost extinguished? On other words, my game againts Tiger finished due to lack of stamina when I was still almost taking off in my way to New York. That would not be that bad IF you could replace or subtitute the internal battery with an external battery, BUT it is not the case. You just got stuck. The internal batery was at full load at the beginning of the trip and remained at 25% when I stopped the game to keep blood for other tasks. Certainly these Palms things are not the solution for a chess games out of your home. Simply you must have a dedicated portable unit that can play many many hours with simple batteries you get in any place. I have had some of those units full years without a change of battery And then, why we should just use a Palm unit in home, sitted in his craddle, when any desktop computer is lot faster? Forget all about Palm. Simply eats energy too fast.... Fernando
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