it's not processor power that's the MPower's problem. it's ram. look at
ks 8 and websites. try dumping lots of programs on the MPower, you can
do that now in some ways. open a document, open a book in book reader
and use eloquence while on the internet. your bn will die, fast. same
concept for trying to add more to tha onboard stuff, the ram just won't
take it.
On 2/17/2012 11:51, Alex Hall wrote:
I understand this arguemnt, but could the mPower not handle advanced
formatting, even if opening files takes a bit longer? After all, they
already put an entire daisy reader on the thing, so is better Word
support out of the question? Besides which, there are still a great
many programs that could be written for the bn family, from games to
unit converters to twitter to a better chat client and so on, which
could run on any unit. Do they do anything like that? Nope. What a lot
of people forget is that the mPower's processor is only about 100mhz
slower than the apex. Yes, it has less ram and an older OS, but it
could do more than what it does now. Joseph, jump in here with your
hardware knowledge to set me straight if I am off.
On 2/17/12, Mike Welty<[email protected]> wrote:
you're overlooking something pretty big, how is the MPower and PK going
to handle a lot of what the apex has? Yeah, i don't agree with 8.1
costing money, but do you really see hw brancing completely out, writing
features for the MPower and stuff, that will hardly run on it? you're
forgetting the limitations of the MPower, 8 nearly maxes out it's
hardware as it is.
On 2/16/2012 15:55, Alex Hall wrote:
Hi all,
I read the press release and talked with hw customer service. Here are
the details of 8.1:
* it is a paid upgrade; either one SMA count or $129 ($20 plus
shipping if you order it already on an SD card)
* the classic is not supported, as expected. The mPower and PK are
both able to take advantage of the upgrade.
* New features include the ability to read PDF documents in keyword or
keybook, and the renaming of the "directory" item in the file manager
to "browse".
Yep, you read it right, and I double checked with hw: a paid upgrade
that includes only *one* new feature. Of course, the press release
pushed the trade-in program for mPower owners to switch to an apex,
but all you mPower owners out there will be happy to know that you can
now read PDFs. You will pay $129 for the feature, and get nothing else
for your money, but go for it if you want to.
Sorry if I sound negative, but this irks me. I keep hoping the
upgrades with one or two features will turn around, but they never do.
I think this is the smallest upgrade I have ever seen. Hw promised two
upgrades for the mPower; I don't think any of us expected them to pull
this trick, using one of these promised upgrades on just one feature.
If they do this again, they will fulfill their obligation of two
upgrades while actually giving mPower and PK users just two features,
less then we got in each of the 7.x upgrades. Okay, rant over.
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