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I bought the Palm M500 on line for $335 with a 16 meg memory stick. The resolution is fine and it does everything I need it to do in a small package. If I want to word processing, spreadsheets and full motion video, I'll do it on my Notebook computer, where it is much easier.
I had a NEC palm top and it did all this stuff I didn't really use, and I couldn't carry it around in my pocket.
My M500 works great for reading adobe manuals,e-mail and keeping track of my schedule.
I wouldn't trade it in for any of those battery eating bricks for nothing!!!!
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I hate to say it but this seems to be a rediculous topic. "16Mhz" while it does refer to clock cycles is not accurate measure of the machine speed when compared to a dis-similiar processor as the instruction set and therefore the actual speed per Mhz would not compare. The advantage to the PALM is that no matter which Palm I buy I have a huge support network to pull from, a mass of software to install and run and a slew of devices to choose from and connection options galore. Simply put the Palm works well for it's task of replacing your day planner. And the Sony Clie 300 is $180 current retail pricing and has a memory stick slot so I can increase the space to 136MB.
The Pocket PC is an excellent implimentation of a multi-media day-planner, however I have found it severly lacking as a Palm replacement. The business software does not take full advantage of the capabilities of the platform.
For those fo you who do not use the devices "because you have to use MS" you can load Linux on the iPaq series - with some modicum of support from Compaq - go to <a href="http://www.handhelds.org" target="_blank">www.handhelds.org</a> and view the avail information.
All in all the pocketPC platform will be the eventual winner in the handheld wars, it has better support, more developers and better hardware options.
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if your palm is using the dragonball cpu you to can install linux on it. I can install linux on my clie. And my friends Visor will work also. As long as its the DragonBall CPU.
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[quote]Originally posted by ClickHere2Surf.com:
<strong>They also have a SLOW 16mhz processor (10 year old technology) and only 8MB RAM with no sound (unless you call beep sound) video or built in functionnality except for a few simple programs.
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Just because it's old, doesn't make it obsolete. the RIM Blackberry wireless text pagers use a Intel 386 processor. I'd hardly call a Blackberry "obsolete"
Plus not everyone can afford the latest technology. However, if you'd be willing to send me $1000 CDN I'd happily buy whatever you wanted me to use!
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[quote]Originally posted by MacGyver:
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Just because it's old, doesn't make it obsolete. the RIM Blackberry wireless text pagers use a Intel 386 processor. I'd hardly call a Blackberry "obsolete"
Plus not everyone can afford the latest technology. However, if you'd be willing to send me $1000 CDN I'd happily buy whatever you wanted me to use!</strong><hr></blockquote>
The PocketPCs are CHEAPER than some of the Palms, that's why I don't under stand people that get an ugly Palm M505 with no sound and a horrible screen for $700 when you can get a very good Pocket PC for $600 CAN with sound, great color screen, music/video playback etc...
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thing is, ive never seen a palm over $400
even the new ones arnt that much. Either that or Californian's get stuff cheaper. But the IPAQ is $599 here and palms here are $150-$400
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thing is, ive never seen a palm over $400
even the new ones arnt that much. Either that or Californian's get stuff cheaper. But the IPAQ is $599 here and palms here are $150-$400
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Here the Palm M505 is $700 and the Casio E125 is $599
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$700 for a palm m505?! you can get it <a href="http://shop.store.yahoo.com/worldwidedirect/palm5hanhel1.html" target="_blank">here</a> for $368. and $599 for a CASIO E125? you can get it for $357 almost everywhere.
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Palm Advantages:
- small
- long battery life
- cheap
Palm Disadvantages:
- not much multimedia
PPC Advantages:
- lots of multimedia
PPC Disadvantages:
- big
- short battery life
- expensive
The PPC seems more like a notebook computer to me. As much as I'd like to own one, the Palm is a little more in most people's price range.
And i don't see how anyone can use Lynx, BTW... :eek:
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[quote]Originally posted by Daemon:
<strong>if your palm is using the dragonball cpu you to can install linux on it. I can install linux on my clie. And my friends Visor will work also. As long as its the DragonBall CPU.</strong><hr></blockquote>
which visor?? i have the visor edge will that one work???
i would like to say that u can buy a palm for as little as $200 some times less thats b&w but its a personal data assistant not a laptop or a game boy y does the resulion matter when i looked a palms i looked qualty and the price at the time i did not want to spend $400-$800 for poctetpc that i have to wright each letter (or at least most of the pocetpcs that we had as store displays) that would not wright the letters that i wrote in because the pocetpc only lookes at lowercase letters where the palm is upper case letters
also w/ the palms u can get a keyboard that will allow u to type as fast as u want i know they make them for some pocetpc's but they are hard to find
as well when i worked in retail we sold about 10 palms for every 1 pocetpc that we sold
now if the palm out sells the pocetpc 10-1 that means that there are very few ppl that care about the color and the resulation that u can can get w/ the pocetpc or even the audio if u are a busness professional that is careing around a pocetpc that that u can play music on if thats ur only reason to buy a pocetpc is that u can listen to music $500 is alot to pay for some thing that will let u listen to music thats to much for me to spend on somethink i can get for $20
also when M$ made windows ce it didn't even last on the market for 6 months now how is that stable?? palm has been around for a long time and the know how to make it work and it works great i have had 2 handspring visors the visor deluxe and now i have the visor edge and havent had a problem also as a computer tech where i work i take care of 70 palm vx's that the agents have and very few have had any problems also if u hot synk the palm before u reset it has all the info on ur pc and i have had to reset a few palms to solve problems w/ one of the programs that i could not delete so i reset it and then synked it and all the info was back and the problem wasn't so it helps when u can reset it and erase every thing
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<a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/18/1713240&mode=thread" target="_blank">http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/18/1713240&mode=thread</a>
here is the site
<a href="http://www.linuxda.com/products/os.html" target="_blank">http://www.linuxda.com/products/os.html</a>
for linux on dragonball cpu platoforms
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Well, I did it. I bought a Palm. After four - yes four, different ce devices I finally went and got a palm - 160x160 pixel screen and graffitti and all - and I LOVE IT!! My ce devices had all kinds of exciting features, but getting them to work was a pain and actually using them enough to warrant carring the device - but my Palm (the Vx) holds all my ebooks and phone numbers, fits in my back pocket and the battery lasts forever - I'm in love.
I must say that as a tool - the Palm rules - as a Toy CE wins.
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