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To: KevRupert who wrote (37)	9/11/2000 12:58:12 PM
From: lkj	Respond to of 817

Palm offers less applications, less power, less memory, less color in their product line. Let me drill deeper into your statement here. Palm OS Vs. Pocket PC OS: Applications: Palm OS has a lot more than Pocket PC. (Plus for Palm OS) Power: Palm OS is a lot more efficient on power in terms of MHz and wattage. (Plus for Palm OS) Memory: Palm OS is a lot more efficient on memory than Pocket PC. (Plus for Palm OS) Standard Palm Inc's PDAs Vs PDAs from the whole Pocket PC camp Applications: Pocket PC has more in Office Support and Multimedia. Palm has connectivity (Small plus for Pocket PC camp) Power: Pocket PC has a much more powerful CPU which permits multimedia. (Plus for Pocket PC camp) Memory: Pocket PC has a lot more memory, because of ineffeciencies in the software. (Minus for Pocket PC camp) Palm OS based PDAs vs. Pocket PC based PDAs Applicaitons: Palm camp wins Power: Pocket PC camp wins Memory: Pocket PC has more memory because of software inefficiencies. It has expandabilily with CF. The Clie offers memory stick support for extra storage. I would call this a draw. conclusion If you see Palm as the PDA company, then it has some work to do to catchup to the whole pocket PC camp. If you see Palm as an OS and platform company, you will see the significant lead Palm has over Pocket PC. Oops, I forgot color. Pocket PC is clearly better than Palm OS in every way to look at color, except power consumption and the reality of making color PDAs today. Khan

To: KevRupert who wrote (37)	9/11/2000 2:08:43 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 817

<< The fact is Palm offers less applications, less power, less memory... in their product line. >> "less applications" Palm OS has thousands of excellent third-party applications (many free or ridiculously inexpensive) versus just a handful of uninspiring WinCE offerings. That's not really "less." "less power" WinCE DOES require a more powerful processor to run its OS, but you don't see the improvement in the user experience. You still wait much longer to see your apps start up in WinCE than in Palm OS. On the other hand, if you meant that WinCE consumes much more power, you were correct. "less memory" WinCE DOES require more memory to run than Palm OS does, but with the memory that's left over after the OS is installed, you can still install hundreds of typical games and applications on a $149 Palm OS device and still have plenty of that memory left over for personal data. Try that on your $600 WinCE machine!