Re: Should I swich over to the Darkside? Pocket PC

It is alleged that David Chien claimed:

> >>1) Higher resolution 640x480 screens. Sadly, Palm has seriously lost
> > A larger screen would be nice, but at what size and battery cost?
>
> See the various reviews, including the recent spate of British PDA
> magazines which reviewed the latest 640x480 PDAs.

About the only thing that I'd upgrade to a VGA resolution display for
specifically is for ebooks - if I used them. OTOH, if I had a display
for them, I might use them... :)

> >>2) More powerful. Faster processors, etc. than any Palm.
> > The PPCs need it, with their larger, less efficient OS and programs.
>
> Regardless of how much more 'inefficient' PPC programs are vs. Palm
> PDAs, if the processor is fast enough to make up the difference and then
> some, then the performance of the system will be quicker no matter what.

Quicker only if the hardware more than compensates, in comparison.

> You can easily test this by opening up 1+MB Word files, HTML files,

I don't. If I had need for that, I might have gotten a T5 or LD
instead of a Treo 650, for the larger display and much higher internal
storage capacity.

> etc. on both the Palm and PPC PDAs and compare. Typically, you'll get
> better performance on the very high end PPC PDAs like the Dell x50v vs.
> the high end Palm PDAs.

The high-end PPCs also cost more than a high-end Palm. The impression
I get, which is based on what +I+ see, is that the PPCs are aimed at
people who want to impress the tech challenged, and the Palms are aimed
at people who want to work.

> > I'm not a heavy online user from my PDA, but I have no complaints so
> > far about Blazer.
> Some may find the larger 640x480 screens of the PPCs more useful (ie.
> less scrolling) vs. the typical 320x320 or 320x480 Palm PDA screens.
>
> 320x480 displaying a typical 800x600 or 1024x768 optimized web page
> will result in a lot of scrolling.

The only scrolling I have to do is vertical. Blazer by default
optimizes/re-parses the page for the width of the display (320 in my
case).

> Anyways, we'll all see soon enough - with Palm developing a PPC Treo,

All I've seen on that are unsubstantiated rumors and photshopped
images.

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