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Originally Posted by rave
I guess it's expected to see a bit more soft resets in PPC's since from what I've read, more software titles require it after installation, much like desktops. What scares me are the hard resets and data loss scenarios.
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There's a large misperception here IMHO. With most traditional Palm devices, people would do rather straightforward tasks. PPC's, being full "computers", enabled you to do much more dramatic stuff. If you take a stock PPC and use it, it should be rock-stable. However, if you load 15 different apps down of dubious quality, expect trouble. I do have to soft-reset my device a bit, but that's because I push it to the limit sometimes. I've gone months without a soft-reset even with many apps installed (all of good quality though - I tend to be very conservative), and I can't remember the last time I did a hard-reset (except when I had to send a defective unit to HP... that's a story for another time).
PalmOS, actually, happens to be a rather unforgiving OS... if you've ever tried an unstable app, you'd know what I mean (the dreaded infinite Soft Reset loop when using a buggy hack, for example).
--bdj