-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:
> I've now owned three Palm branded items: Palm IIIx, Treo 650 and Treo > 680. I've also owned one Dell laptop and I've used several Dell > desktop computers. In my personal experience, Dells are made cheap and > it shows. My laptop is no longer usable because of that and hasn't > been for years (one of these days, I'll probably remove and destroy the > hard drive and then pitch the rest into the dumpster, it's no longer > worth trying to fix). OTOH, I've never had a serious problem with any > of my Palm units, and nothing else that could not be easily fixed, > worked around or simply ignored. > > I've only upgraded my PDA once out of necessity, and that was not due > to any problem with the hardware or software, it was a smartphone on > Verizon and I no longer had coverage from them so I had to switch to > Cingular and therefore upgrade to a new smartphone (Kyocera 7135 to > Treo 650). Compare that to my having to upgrade to a new desktop > computer twice because of massive system failures. Funny - our experiences are completely opposite each other. My mind is boggled at the idea of a Treo that is stable and doesn't break. I keep hoping they'll come out with something that is as well behaved as my Blackberry. In four months I've had to reset it exactly once it has *never* crashed despite having as many 3rd-party apps loaded on it as on my Treo. How massive of a system failure in the desktop? HDD? Mobo? PS? BTW: what model of laptop are you tempted to discard? :-) >> reliable system. My 680's battery life was miserable (even compared to >> a 650) and the system crashed and hung often. When I moved from the 650 > > The 680 has a smaller battery, and did you ever do a battery > calibration? Did you install the camera/battery patch? Yes and yes. Both helped some but I'm on my phone a lot and the 680's battery just barely has the power to run the whole day. At least it's not as bad as the 270 where I nearly panicked if I was away from a charger for more than four hours. > My 680 is stabler than my old 650, and I had gotten the 650 very > stable. I'm hoping it was my particular 680 and that the new one will be better. My first 650 (which I'm using now while waiting for the replacement 680) was good with a weak signal and fairly stable in general. The replacement crashed about three times as often and dropped calls in places where the first 650 had been fine. My neighbor had a 650 (also an unlocked GSM unit) and his was even worse than mine. The last stable Palm product I had was a Palm VII. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBRl8CZKyvi1v8SpM5AQKpwwQAhPsHDjD5IarQ5YJU39KyV7XXPHzMhUd7 TXqSMSxHoRSHFn/DeDqtM+RRgYpB65qYIksv0RcbZDqPj7vElB15OYeA03tZhZLm 3DnHURu8EgWzuemjBkdgdTdBhPj54/yPYsm7s+NMoJ2AaH/hmVzCZ4nnHV5MkSRU MZuAN1lfOFs= =vqqi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
