Author: Jeff Lischer
Date: 08:41:49 03/12/05
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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 Fernando, I use underclocking software to extend the battery life of my T3. Setting the system default speed to 133 MHz (down from 400 MHz) helps a lot. Normally I then over clock my chess programs (to 532 MHz) to get optimum performance. But you could underclock them instead to get better battery life on the road. I've been very happy with PXA Clocker, which has a freeware version at http://www.freewarepalm.com/utilities/pxaclocker.shtml
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