surfaday
10-06-2004, 09:39 AM
Early Palm>>>Handspring Deluxe>>>iPaq 3655>>>Toshiba e755.
You can see where I went wrong - I should have never tried that iPaq - beautiful color display, expandable memory, runs movies, shows photos. How very very cool compared to my old, slow, monochrome Handspring Deluxe. Ok, so it cost, what was it? $600 or so? Honestly, I forget.
The reality: iPaq 3655: slow. Locked up all the time. Necessary to soft reset, (warm boot, anyone?), frequently. Not enough memory. Frequented the various forums for advice. (Where have you gone, Dale Coffing?!?)
New year, new upgrade. More memory, faster processor, new os.
Toshiba e755: Wow. Now with wifi that worked intermittantly at best, (see hard reset), featured a new and vastly un-improved operating system... Still locking up and soft reset required often. Not really that much faster even though it is 2x the processor speed. Cheaper too. Only $450, woo hoo!
In hindsight - it IS running windows after all. Not the most stable platform ever devised. What a piece of cr*p.
Today I TAP-ed my Toshiba at Compusa. Got sick of it. Poor battery life, and poor enough that in a few days it would lose 100% battery power and hard reset. Often locked up after turning it off, would not turn back on. Soft resets were needed many times per day. Probably every time I turned it on. Today I tried to turn it on and nothing happened. I placed it in the cradle and, (why was I not surprized), it was hard reset, and the freakin' battery WAS NOT dead! miracle of miracles. Everything gone again. Did I say it was a piece of cr*p?
Note: I took the opportunity the hard resets gave me to try loading less programs and trying to keep it clean, no iffy software with bugs, just the plain-jane rom-resident software. No difference in the stellar performance. And I did spend my fair share of time talking with tech support both for the iPaq and the Toshiba. With the palms? Tech support not needed.
As I said, today I took it straight to Compusa and got a store credit for my replacement plan, called TAP. I got $341 and change. I felt lucky. I virtually had stopped using my pda, got back to paper for my calendar, and now store phone numbers in my cell phone, lets not even talk about wifi, I had switched that off and never even used it. Oh, and games? I use my Gamboy Advance SP. Lost money? Yes, but what price toys, (yeah, right). Oh well - got cash for a piece of cr*p that I had stopped using anyway.
Never again.
Now. What to do with $341 in store credit? Can you say X-box? Maybe $341 worth of dvds?
Walt
You can see where I went wrong - I should have never tried that iPaq - beautiful color display, expandable memory, runs movies, shows photos. How very very cool compared to my old, slow, monochrome Handspring Deluxe. Ok, so it cost, what was it? $600 or so? Honestly, I forget.
The reality: iPaq 3655: slow. Locked up all the time. Necessary to soft reset, (warm boot, anyone?), frequently. Not enough memory. Frequented the various forums for advice. (Where have you gone, Dale Coffing?!?)
New year, new upgrade. More memory, faster processor, new os.
Toshiba e755: Wow. Now with wifi that worked intermittantly at best, (see hard reset), featured a new and vastly un-improved operating system... Still locking up and soft reset required often. Not really that much faster even though it is 2x the processor speed. Cheaper too. Only $450, woo hoo!
In hindsight - it IS running windows after all. Not the most stable platform ever devised. What a piece of cr*p.
Today I TAP-ed my Toshiba at Compusa. Got sick of it. Poor battery life, and poor enough that in a few days it would lose 100% battery power and hard reset. Often locked up after turning it off, would not turn back on. Soft resets were needed many times per day. Probably every time I turned it on. Today I tried to turn it on and nothing happened. I placed it in the cradle and, (why was I not surprized), it was hard reset, and the freakin' battery WAS NOT dead! miracle of miracles. Everything gone again. Did I say it was a piece of cr*p?
Note: I took the opportunity the hard resets gave me to try loading less programs and trying to keep it clean, no iffy software with bugs, just the plain-jane rom-resident software. No difference in the stellar performance. And I did spend my fair share of time talking with tech support both for the iPaq and the Toshiba. With the palms? Tech support not needed.
As I said, today I took it straight to Compusa and got a store credit for my replacement plan, called TAP. I got $341 and change. I felt lucky. I virtually had stopped using my pda, got back to paper for my calendar, and now store phone numbers in my cell phone, lets not even talk about wifi, I had switched that off and never even used it. Oh, and games? I use my Gamboy Advance SP. Lost money? Yes, but what price toys, (yeah, right). Oh well - got cash for a piece of cr*p that I had stopped using anyway.
Never again.
Now. What to do with $341 in store credit? Can you say X-box? Maybe $341 worth of dvds?
Walt