Comment Stability (Score 1) 295
I don't know why no one picked up this point.
The review states that PalmOS crashes too easily, and too often, and seems to imply that somehow PocketPC (PPC) is more stable than Palm.
That's nonsense.
PPC is NOT stable. It crashes very often and it requires a soft reset every day or two to keep it running smoothly. Of course, you can probably avoid rebooting for a week, but in my experience, performance drops considerably after 24-48hours of uptime.
I guess one might argue that Palm is not stable in the sense that, often a poorly written program can cause fatal errors and force a reset. However, once you find out which program it is, and avoid those poorly written programs, then you are fine. I have NEVER had to reboot palm because of performance issues.
Poorly written PPC software also crashes the PPC system. Of course, at times you can force shutdown of the application program without resetting, but often PPC becomes quite unstable after that anyway and you might as well reset.
To me, PalmOS is a very stable platform, and they are very fast. One might argue otherwise by simply looking at processor speed. But the fact is Palm devices may be running slower processors, somehow the programming makes it a lot more efficient. Applications run faster and are more responsive on Palm.
For example, MIMs (an Australian-based drug book) takes a good 5-10 seconds to boot up on PPC, but takes 2 seconds to boot up on Palm. iSilo also loads up faster on Palm.
Mind you, on PPC, once the program has been loaded up, switching between the programs (instead of having to load up the program) does speed up the speed very considerably. However, having multiple programs running in memory impacts (rather considerably) on stability and the overall responsiveness of the unit.
I first starting using Palm (Vx) then switched to the PPC (Toshiba e710), then switched back to Palm (T3), then switched to PPC again (O2 mini), then at last, back to Palm (T3). I have used each device exclusively for at least 6 months. I've also test drived a fair few pocket pc for my friends as well.
I kept going back to Palm. But then again, that is probably because I have no use for fancy multimedia and I do not use my PDA for emailing or internet. I certainly don't care about PPC's tighter integration with Windows. Of course, these things might mean more to other people than it does to me.
But my point is simply that PPC is NOT stable at all, and certainly not when compared with PalmOS.
The review states that PalmOS crashes too easily, and too often, and seems to imply that somehow PocketPC (PPC) is more stable than Palm.
That's nonsense.
PPC is NOT stable. It crashes very often and it requires a soft reset every day or two to keep it running smoothly. Of course, you can probably avoid rebooting for a week, but in my experience, performance drops considerably after 24-48hours of uptime.
I guess one might argue that Palm is not stable in the sense that, often a poorly written program can cause fatal errors and force a reset. However, once you find out which program it is, and avoid those poorly written programs, then you are fine. I have NEVER had to reboot palm because of performance issues.
Poorly written PPC software also crashes the PPC system. Of course, at times you can force shutdown of the application program without resetting, but often PPC becomes quite unstable after that anyway and you might as well reset.
To me, PalmOS is a very stable platform, and they are very fast. One might argue otherwise by simply looking at processor speed. But the fact is Palm devices may be running slower processors, somehow the programming makes it a lot more efficient. Applications run faster and are more responsive on Palm.
For example, MIMs (an Australian-based drug book) takes a good 5-10 seconds to boot up on PPC, but takes 2 seconds to boot up on Palm. iSilo also loads up faster on Palm.
Mind you, on PPC, once the program has been loaded up, switching between the programs (instead of having to load up the program) does speed up the speed very considerably. However, having multiple programs running in memory impacts (rather considerably) on stability and the overall responsiveness of the unit.
I first starting using Palm (Vx) then switched to the PPC (Toshiba e710), then switched back to Palm (T3), then switched to PPC again (O2 mini), then at last, back to Palm (T3). I have used each device exclusively for at least 6 months. I've also test drived a fair few pocket pc for my friends as well.
I kept going back to Palm. But then again, that is probably because I have no use for fancy multimedia and I do not use my PDA for emailing or internet. I certainly don't care about PPC's tighter integration with Windows. Of course, these things might mean more to other people than it does to me.
But my point is simply that PPC is NOT stable at all, and certainly not when compared with PalmOS.
