Yah, I suppose I shouldn't worry about it since I'll probably be getting a newer webOS phone before my Pre is 2 years old. :-)
-- Michael On 3/26/2010 9:15 PM, Levi Wallach wrote: > I suppose it's possible, but how long are CPU's supposed to last? 5 years? > 10 years? You think it could make that just 2? Even so, I doubt I will > still have this phone when it turns 2, but that harkens back to other > discussions. I've been selling my 1-1.5-year-old phones (occasionally even > .5-year-old ones!) for the past several years in order to get something > newer/better. Strange since it seems my PC exchange rate has gotten a lot > slower. I used to be upgrading parts within 1.5 years, and then building or > buying a whole new one at maybe 2.5. The PC before my current one was I > think 3.5 years old when I traded up, and my current one is almost that age > and yet I have no plans to upgrade any times soon. Maybe in 2011. > Especially strange now that you can get a decent desktop OR laptop for under > $1K these days, maybe even under $500! Not to mention how much monitors > have come down. My 24" from Dell purchased almost 3.5 years ago was around > $700! Now you can get something like this for under $300 and something > signicantly bigger for not much more than that. Luckily we have old > desktops at work running XP so I don't know how bad off I am! ;-) I think > we are supposed to get new machines any week now, so that might change > things a little... > > > Levi Wallach > blog: http://twelveblackcodemonkeys.com > tweet me @dvdmon (http://twitter.com/dvdmon) > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Michael M. Rye<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Yep, you bet! It's fast and very nice. >> >> My only concern is if this speedup shortens the CPU life. >> Anyone know or have any opinion on that? >> >> -- >> Michael >> >> On 3/26/2010 8:01 PM, Craig Froehle wrote: >> >>> Just installed it. >>> >>> Woowee! Now I'm cookin' with gas. >>> >>> Seriously...this is how webOS is meant to be experienced...everything >>> is now, now, now. Well, almost...and enough. >>> >>> Of course, I can still dream of a 1GHz device running webOS. :-) >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Levi Wallach<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I've been using it since yesterday with no problems. Really makes >>>> >> things >> >>>> speedy! >>>> >>>> Levi Wallach >>>> blog: http://twelveblackcodemonkeys.com >>>> tweet me @dvdmon (http://twitter.com/dvdmon) >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:25 PM, ldouglas<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> sweet! this is why I hope webOS succeeds - i love that you can tinker >>>>> with it without violating some sort of sacred pact. >>>>> >>>>> On 3/26/10, Eugenio Perea<[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> PalmBlast on Twitter posted this video on the 720 and 800 MHz kernel >>>>>> patch for the Pre: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >> http://www.palmblast.com/articles/2010/3/2010326-Overclocking-the-Palm-Pre.html >> >>>>> >>>>>> Looks interesting. Anyone tried it? >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> >>>>>> Eugenio >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ------------------------------------ >>>>>> >>>>>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------ >>>>> >>>>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------ >>>> >>>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> ------------------------------------ >>> >>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > >
