Author: Mark Young
Date: 23:30:03 03/11/05
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On March 11, 2005 at 19:13:33, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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 I just read the reviews about the T3. After reading the review I would not buy a T3. From the review Battery Life and Recharging **My old Palm III would last anywhere from one to three months on a pair of alkaline AAA batteries. The new T3 has a built in rechargeable Lithium Polymer battery, and battery life can be as low as 2 hours of continuous use. Palm itself suggests recharging on a daily basis if you've got the Bluetooth switched on, and says it should last for five days of typical usage with default brightness settings and no Bluetooth.** and it make matters worse Fernando read this from the review. **Note also that with the typical life of a Lithium battery being 500 rechargings, it seems that the battery will need replacing within a couple of years of heavy use. There is no way to do this at present.** The T3 does not sound like a good buy. Remember not all PDAs are like this. I get hours of use on my PDA and can replace the battery pack. It is great for Chess. I will run a battery test using ChessGenius to see what kind of battery life a pocket PC at 400Mhz can produce.
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