I encountered the Palm before the Newt. I never owned one, but I
messed with my brother's. I didn't really like the interface, and I
was not biased due to the Newt. I never used the Palm enough to see
it get slow trying to do things. When I first got a Newt, the
interface made perfect sense to me, and I loved it from the
beginning. It (a 120) was also a lot more comfortable in my hand. As
for Graffiti, which I hate, you must remember that it was created for
the Newt because people were having so much trouble with the early
Newts' handwriting recognition. Since NOS 2.0, I don't see much use
for it.
-James
> 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
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