Palm Developer gets the idea right..Zodiac is on the rise.

[Alexander]

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[Alexander]

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[James S]

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Depends on the source. If it's something your renderring personally, like Flash, 3D work, etc, then you will. Or recording from games.

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[Alexander]

[Dan East]

If your talking about applications that take over the device like games, video players, etc, then there will be no performance difference depending on the OS.

Now GUI controls may well update faster on a palm, because the controls are much more simplistic than Windows controls. So it can be said the palm OS is faster in some cases because it does less, which IMO means your are sacrificing capability for performance. That may have been okay 6 years ago when devices ran at 10 mhz, but not on a 400mhz device with 64 MB RAM. I want a robust OS to go with the robust hardware. Palm OS is hardly robust.

Dan East

[chimpa]

Well I just read this whole thread and boy there is alot of bull shit in here

I like the tapwave's design and I like how it has a 8mb ati chip ( even if it is 2d it's still going in the right direction ). I know alot of the people here didn't think gfx chips this size where even going to be in pda's for a long time ... Any ways I'm not a fan of palm like alot of the people here ( duh its a ppc forum) but if they get some good rpg's or just some really impressive games I'd get one. Right now there line up just sucks. Come on doom 2? Spy hunter and that ware fair game? Geez ppc has 2 of those games and there not even that great. I think it was a horrible choice for them to use the x-forge engine. Also since that nwm screen wasn't real I personaly am not impressed with any of it so far. I would much rather have a ppc running a psx emu at 45fps+ ( with sound) and im sure alot of people here would rather that too. Even though the tapwave does look nice ( in hardware) the software is lacking. I think the N-gage looks like it has better software but the hardware has problems. If only the n-gage's games where redesigned and made for the tapwave . Any ways I think Gba SP won't be really feeling any loss of sales. The gba sp is still gamers choice. It might only have a 33mhz proc but it sure does have some very very good games and that's really the most importent thing. Just look at ppc's we have a device with a 400mhz proc 128mb ram , and we could put like 6gb CF cards in are memory slots. I mean a ps2 is only 300mhz ... a GBA is 33mhz ... but still are best games look like something a little kid made using paint. Oh well.

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[Miracle]

Windows may be slow, but it sure is a very good OS.
Sure it has got a couple of bugs (lot's of them), but when you look at the new Longhorn, that one looks very promising.