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Cleartype makes a BIG difference. It makes the letters look a lot "stronger", nicer looking and easier to read. Thks.
I think the lower resolution display is affecting things also. For example, some letter combos blur together a bit with cleartype, and the screen is not really nice to read ebooks with. I still need to try iSilo and eReader, though. Don't know if add-on font options are available like iSilo for Palm, but that might be helpful also.
This is going to be a lot tougher to transition from Palm to PPC than it would be for a new user to just start out with PPC, but I think it would be true the other way around also. Especially when you are well-entrenched in the other OS and programs.
The further I go, though, the more I'm feeling like there's not a huge difference when it comes down to it. Just a different style. I still like plain and simple and reliable, which is what I see in PalmOS. And the screen thing bothers me because reading on my PDA is one of my top activities. But I don't think that's a Palm/PPC thing. Probably more due to screen resolution.
Yet to come are comparisons of actual PIM and Outliner programs, and other program comparisons. It will be interesting to see how they differ.
So far, I can see being happy with PPC for a while until I decide which way to go in the future. Once I get things set up and synching working properly (and making sure the programs I depend on have both Palm and PPC support, plus hopefully data conversion between the two), then maybe I'll be able to hop from one side to the other based on what has the best devices available at the time!
But before I get too far ahead of myself, I need to remember I haven't even really hardly gotten started. Hopefully my experiences will help someone else out there also. I realize it's mostly speculation right now, but hopefully I'll have more "real" info soon. (But not too soon because I'm on vacation in a tiny little town in the middle of nowhere to try to get away from the rat race for a while and chill out. Probably shouldn't be on the computer at all, but gee, how can I let this DSL connection go unused?!!!)
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