Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 02:36:59 03/12/05
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On March 12, 2005 at 02:30:03, Mark Young wrote: >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. What kind of Pocket PC do you have? Jorge
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