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Another Reason to Hate the BE300....it's better then PPC NOW


Postby Cameron » Jul 23, 2002 @ 5:23am

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Postby Dan East » Jul 23, 2002 @ 7:24am

Wow, how did I miss this thread for so long (oh yeah, my subconscious was making me avoid it). Anyway, as a BE-300 owner, and as someone who occasionally dabbles in Windows CE software development, I can say for certain that the Quake screenshot supposedly running on a BE-300 is completely fabricated and bogus.

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The BE-300 has 4 MB of RAM, of which only around 3 are free for program usage (after the OS, etc), which doesn't leave nearly enough for Quake. Next, you can tell that the screenshot was actually from a PC running at least at 800x600 resolution. Take a look at the HUD at the bottom of the screen. That HUD is around 240 pixels wide, which of course stretches the entire width of a Pocket PC display. Finally, that is a screenshot, not a real photo from a digital camera. Obviously the image was blurred on purpose using a paint program.

The only advantage of the BE-300 is its price. Our medical software runs on dedicated Windows CE device, purchased specifically just to run our software. It is a great advantage for our software to support a full color device that can be purchased for $150.

The huge disadvantages include a tiny, non-reflective display (especially tiny compared to my iPaq), the fact that RAM is real memory and not flash memory, there is only 4 MB RAM, and the "Nand disc", etc, for permanent storage is extremely proprietary at the least.

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Postby Mike Bannick » Jul 23, 2002 @ 1:02pm

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