On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:57:02PM -0700, Steve Sabram wrote:
> Tom Zerucha wrote:
> > You aren't going to enter Word documents with formatting, tables,
> > etc. on such a tiny screen. Ditto for Excel spreadsheets (Dump the
> > excess and you get what any of the well done Palm spreadsheets do).
>
> I'd like to see what someone from TinySheet or QuickSheet would have to say about
>this.
Bad wording on my part.
It was intended as a complement. I manage my checks and visa on my
palm using Quicksheet, and even do scientific and engineering
calculations, but I can see 4 columns of data and it works smoothly
and fast enough. I.e. Quicksheet, TinySheet, and the others are
"spreadsheet-clipping", not Excel, so I can't choose between fancy
fonts or embed stuff, but I have all the calculation and even graphing
power. Even with the processing power alledged differences my recalc
is done before the hourglass goes away - assuming I don't have to
close other apps to get more memory on the WindyVice.
> It loads text fine! How about a pocket Lynx browser?
Lynx is actually a bit fat because it does a lot of work to make text
and things like graphics or object tags accessible. But you may be on
to something...
> > OTOH, Linux embeds well, so it will be interesting to see how many
> > iPaqs end up running Linux and what apps are developed.
> So anyone up for buying just the iPaq hardware from Compaq and
> selling Linux on it out of the box as a VAR?
Will Microsoft refund the price of the useless OS? Time for a Windows
CE refund day. Maybe there will be a Compaq OEM version.
Their current problem, and Palm's as well to some extent is all the
unobtainum required for the production. Flash chips are rather rare
at the moment, and LCDs - especially the fiddly small hi-rez color
ones - are in short supply. Palm uses common 2M chips. How much
flash does the iPaq require...?
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