Sean Charles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: | | What does it matter if you don't use it or don't need it??? I | am puzzled | greatly how this affects the battery life. Perhaps with less apps. | installed, the refresh bicycles don't wear their tyres out | and therefore | last longer as they don't have so far to go?
Have you experienced slowdown from the lots of apps installed or lots of system extension installed (and activated)? The slowdown comes from more cpu cycle and affects battery life? My DragonBall EZ 16MHz device gets slowdown with just one system extension, if it hooks SysHandleEvent(). | This is possibly a valid point...but isn't that what they are | for...what's the point of having an app. launcher if you only | have one | program on your device for example. It's more of a burden for users, | whic is why a *good* lanucher is even more useful. Serves users for | littering their devices! Just one 3rd party app is a quite extreme example and not valid here. As I said above, switching apps will slowdown when lots of apps installed. | Can you please explain to me, in words (endian-ness of your | choice) of | one syllable because I am 2sTooPID to understand how deleting | programs | from a device is going to extend the battery life. My battery | tends to | wear out when I turn it on and use *any* program, 3rd party | or not. Yes. Of course every programs consume battery energy. But complex apps eats more cpu cycle, so consume more juice. | Does your PC slow down when you fit another hard drive? I think this is not a valid analogy... Anyway an old i386 or i486 pc with 10 or more SCSI hard drive connected and if it must scan every disk (through PATH environment variable) when launching apps or showing app's icons on desktop or somewhere, I am sure the pc will slow down. | Will my waistline | reduce if I throw out my old pairs of trousers and pants? I don't know :-) | Handspring Users: For max. battery life, delete everything, | jump up and | down on it until the battery drops out, then | place it in a cool dark place (inside your heads?) and I | guarantee that | your battery charge will last a very long time. No one said "delete *every* 3rd party apps". js3guj -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
