HandHeld Canada gets iPAQ 3900 series in stock

[Jason Dunn]

<a href="http://www.handheldcanada.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=H&Product_Code=CQ0062&Affiliate=ppcthoughts">http://www.handheldcanada.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=H&Product_Code=CQ0062&Affiliate=ppcthoughts</a><br /><br />My fellow Canadians, those of you who have been waiting for the iPAQ to hit our golden land of beauty can now order from our affiliate partner HandHeld Canada. It 'aint cheap, but ohh it's pretty! I had a girlfriend like that once...

[kurzon]

8O You're right about it not being cheap. I'll pass. :?

[Paragon]

It 'aint cheap, but ohh it's pretty! I had a girlfriend like that once...

I guess you upgraded to a keeper a few months ago. One thing about keepers is they come with extended warranties. Usually repair only since replacement is far more difficult :D

Dave

[Jason Dunn]

One thing about keepers is they come with extended warranties.

My wife's a keeper for sure! :D

[topps]

http://www.handheldcanada.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=H&Product_Code=CQ0062&Affiliate=ppcthoughts

My fellow Canadians, those of you who have been waiting for the iPAQ to hit our golden land of beauty can now order from our affiliate partner HandHeld Canada. It 'aint cheap, but ohh it's pretty! I had a girlfriend like that once...

and it ain't quick, or so I've been led to believe from the newsgroups etc. No faster than a 206MHz at most things and slower at some. Do we have any idea how soon to expect the first versions of apps recompiled to take advantage of the Xscale instruction set.? Which apps are likely to benefit most? From my take on the situation, memory reads seem to be a bottle neck - is this just some part of the ROM that needs to be tweaked or is this going to be a "feature" of this current iteration of the Xscale CPU?

It would be nice to see what happens to application execution speed once recompiled for Xscale to give us some idea of whether to expect much improvement. My guess would be that stuff which is CPU intensive will be what benefits most...is this situation similar to reading from disk on a desktop (I know its not exactly the same but the analogy I am referring to is stuff like databases which are easy on the CPU but tough on the disk are less likely to benefit than say a CAD program - with the relatively slow memory access of the Xscale, would the same implications largely hold true?).