thatblokekev
06-21-2003, 08:00 PM
I know I haven't posted a great deal here but of the few posts I've made, I've been defensive of Palm and not very nice about PPC :-)
Well to cut a long story short, I've switched from Palm to PPC and I thought it might be worth nothing down why. For a while I haven't been best pleased with my Palm 515, it's not very fast, has limited funcationality and basically doesn't give much bang for the buck -- it doesn't even have sound. And I've also grown weary of endlessly converting data into the obscure formats Palm understands.
For all that, I still feel the Palm is a superior platform. It feels more robust and more mature. The reason why I changed is something I see as being not that different from the march between Windows and Apple OS. When it comes down to it, the PPC gives an awful lot more for the same money, indeed, often less money. The Palm Tungsten range is extremely expensive when compared to PPC feature for feature. Palm also seems to make incremental changes that are so small don't make upgrades distinct. I could have bought a Tungsten but I'd have the same amount of memory, the same limited expansion and the same applications.
When the PPC wins, in the way the Windows PC has become ubiquitous, isn't in its refinement but in its value. You just get so much more for your dollars and cents (or pounds and pence in my case) because the platform is being made by so many different companies, it isn't a two horse race between Sony and Palm, although both companies make nice devices the underlying products don't really offer a great deal of distinctiveness.
As an aside I did but a Sharp Zaurus 5500 but took it back. That is a boat that just doesn't float, the synchronisation is almost non-existant (it has _no_ means of syncing Notes from Outlook!!) and has no clue about how to back up to a PC on every sync. There are also very few applications, and those that there are have no desktop versions.
So for me the PPC won on a straight value test. I'm looking forward to its delivery and I'll be curious to see how well I get on with PPC.
Well to cut a long story short, I've switched from Palm to PPC and I thought it might be worth nothing down why. For a while I haven't been best pleased with my Palm 515, it's not very fast, has limited funcationality and basically doesn't give much bang for the buck -- it doesn't even have sound. And I've also grown weary of endlessly converting data into the obscure formats Palm understands.
For all that, I still feel the Palm is a superior platform. It feels more robust and more mature. The reason why I changed is something I see as being not that different from the march between Windows and Apple OS. When it comes down to it, the PPC gives an awful lot more for the same money, indeed, often less money. The Palm Tungsten range is extremely expensive when compared to PPC feature for feature. Palm also seems to make incremental changes that are so small don't make upgrades distinct. I could have bought a Tungsten but I'd have the same amount of memory, the same limited expansion and the same applications.
When the PPC wins, in the way the Windows PC has become ubiquitous, isn't in its refinement but in its value. You just get so much more for your dollars and cents (or pounds and pence in my case) because the platform is being made by so many different companies, it isn't a two horse race between Sony and Palm, although both companies make nice devices the underlying products don't really offer a great deal of distinctiveness.
As an aside I did but a Sharp Zaurus 5500 but took it back. That is a boat that just doesn't float, the synchronisation is almost non-existant (it has _no_ means of syncing Notes from Outlook!!) and has no clue about how to back up to a PC on every sync. There are also very few applications, and those that there are have no desktop versions.
So for me the PPC won on a straight value test. I'm looking forward to its delivery and I'll be curious to see how well I get on with PPC.