I actually used a palm for about 3 years. A IIIc, Still have it but it burnt
itself out somehow (grr). To be honest the one word I use to describe it is
'limited' minimal expansion capabilities, crap all memory, hideously slow
at processing some things and as for the palava one had to go through to get
it to show a bitmap! There was only one app which I was genuinely impressed
with on it and I wrote it =] It was a Magic the Gathering Deck Building suite
and I was damn chuffed... Until the day when it ran out of batteries and wiped
itself whilst I was on holiday in England (stupid me had lost the USB / Serial
adaptor and so hadn't bothered to leave it in its cradle or indeed use it
for a good while)...
To be honest I can't really compare it to a Newton until I actually get
to use mine (am counting down the delivery days) but from what I've seen of
the Newton it really does make the little PDA seem paltry.
One last thing... Graffiti sucks....
Many of you might actually use it but when I saw Graffiti for download for
the Newton OS I was horrified =] It would be like taking an iMac and painting
it beige =] All that lovely HWR forsaken *chuckles*
John Swaine
>
>> There's a strange sort of instant reaction here just
>> about every time someone mentions a Palm OS-based device;
>> I can't help but wonder how much of it is criticism from
>> experience etc.
>
> I've never owned a Palm OS device but I have taken a look at them at various
> times and not been impressed. You get a screen that can only be described
> as miniscule and a toothpick to stab at it with.
> They eat your data if you let the batteries run down or you don't change
> them quickly enough. And, if you have one that uses real batteries (not rechargables)
> , they are those not-available-everywhere AAA cells that are more expensive
> than the generally available AA.
>
> Granted, Palm devices are small and easy to carry, but I also know several
> Palm users who have destroyed their machines by forgetting they had them
> in a back pocket when they sat down.
> Palm is also fully supported by software manufacturers, another major
> plus.
>
> But IMHO the Newton functions better as a standalone computer (the way
> I use the Newt) than the Palm.
>
> Peter
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