>I recall postings by David Fedor that the cpu speeds are generally not
>advertised and that we shouldn't assume certain models will always have the
>same cpu or run at the same speed. Unlike desktop PCs, It isn't a selling
>point.
Actually it's an ANTI-selling point for Palm, since WINCE devices run at
MUCH higher speeds. Palm is obviously (and quite rightly) trying to
deemphasize processor speed since the real measure on any computer (and
especially on a handheld) is USER speed, that is, how long it takes to
accomplish a certain task (just like the real measure of memory is not
how much you have, but how much data or how many programs you can store
in that memory with a given OS).
Steve Patt
President, Stevens Creek Software
http://www.stevenscreek.com/palm
Best PQA ("ePQA"), PalmSource 99
Best Application ("PizzaScan"), Palm Developer's Conference 1998
First printing software for the Palm - September, 1997
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