On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:19:08AM +0900, Sushi wrote:
>
> >On 11/28/02 @ 10:38 PM, Mark Janello wrote:
> >
> >Wait! You mean if you let the batteries run dead in
> >a Palm you lose all your data? Wow. Someone thought
> >that was a _good_ idea?
>
> With a PalmIII (removable batteries), I have I believe 30 seconds to
> change the batteries.
>
> More than that, and all your data in normal memory is toast.
This is simply unacceptable in my opinion. Yes, the Palm was more
designed as a mobile slave to the desktop (while the Newton is basically
a fully independent machine), but still, losing data due to empty main
batteries? What were they smoking?
> I prefer the Newton 2000 leasure battery replacement schedule over the
> PalmIII. All my data remained intact for a little over two years. I was
> a bit slow in changing the batteries! ;-)
>
> Want to piss off a Palm III owner? If so, while its on, just pop the
> batteries out. You get an immediate loss of data. Fun stuff --
That is one of the issues[0] keeping me away from a Palm. I had my Newton
die due to empty batteries on me while I was busily writing on it
(disregarding the low battery warning in the hope that they would last
"just a few minutes" longer) and guess how much data I lost? Only the
last word I had written and nothing else. Isn't a MP2K1 a great machine?
Regards,
Alex.
[0] There of course plenty more, like tiny screen and no HWR worth that
name.
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