Any reason NOT to buy a Maestro ?

by **R0B** » May 16, 2002 @ 9:55pm

32 megs ram really sucks. You are forever fighting with your device for more ram. I have 64 and love it (I would like more though). I haven't needed a storage card in like 4 months. Plus I have argentum, lemonade stand (cool game but over priced), snails, and many more installed.

by **erth** » May 16, 2002 @ 10:02pm

Well, with a CF AND an SD slot, I'll have room for a microdrive and whatever else - bluetooth, storage card... A microdrive wouldn't compare with another 32 MB of RAM, but the double expansion capability sure will be nice

How much faster is SD/MMC than CF for storage cards ?

by **ingallsj** » May 16, 2002 @ 10:41pm

by **Jadam** » May 16, 2002 @ 11:35pm

well, the 32mb ram really doesnt bother me that much, but im waiting to get an SD card. Toshiba has their own SD control inside of the Maestro, and its way way wya way way way way way faster than the one inside of the other StrongArm PPC's, the other ones i think use a 1bit interface, while the toshi uses 4bit, but i dunno. And the Maestro is the only PocketPC to have SDIO, meaning you could use a bluetooth SD card with it. the only drawback to 32mb RAM, is when apps that use more than 32MB of RAM come out, but, by then, we all will have Xscale and 256mb RAM!!!! and no, Audiovox is not canning the Maestro, as they just came out with the Thera, whish is basically an Audiovox Maestro, W/out CF, and with an antenna for celphone calling. But it costs $800!! and they use the same connector, so all peripherals for the Thera will work with the Maestro.
Try to buy them at your local staples, they will be much cheaper than CompUSA, and yes, staples has pulled them from their website.

by **ingallsj** » May 16, 2002 @ 11:43pm

SDIO would definitely be faster than CF. It's like comparing USB to a floppy drive.

by **Jadam** » May 16, 2002 @ 11:52pm

john, i dunno if you know what SDIO is, but it stands for...

Secure Digital Input and Output.

Which means, you can hook up peripherals to it, like a bluetooth card, GPS, cell phone, camera, anything really. And since Palm uses SDIO also for expansion, expect some of the Palm SD cards to work with this, like the Bluetooth card, or if palm/Handspring(which is releasing the Treo 90 w/ SD, no more springboard, and no wireless) releasea camera using SDIO.

by **R0B** » May 17, 2002 @ 12:01am

by **ingallsj** » May 17, 2002 @ 12:03am

by **Jadam** » May 17, 2002 @ 12:19am

by **erth** » May 17, 2002 @ 9:36pm

by **ingallsj** » May 17, 2002 @ 11:39pm

by **Solarix** » May 18, 2002 @ 12:41am

by **Jadam** » May 18, 2002 @ 5:04am

by **Matt Keys** » May 18, 2002 @ 5:37am

by **Jadam** » May 18, 2002 @ 5:42am

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