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Alexander Turcic · 02-24-2005, 08:02 PM

Here is my simple math. I had:

BEFORE: a Clie 760CD with a 33mhz Motorola Dragonball CPU.
NOW: a Dell Axim X50v with a 624mhz Intel XScale PXA270 CPU, the fastest on the market these days.

You should expect lightning-fast zippy responses from a today's high-end PDA when you compare it to a 3 years old oldtimer Clie. But you know what? My Dell doesn't seem to be any faster than the Clie in standard situations such as when using standard PIM functionalities to enter new contact or todo items. Other applications, admittedly, run smoother, such as Plucker or Replico, both which require more CPU power when processing a document's rich content (images, tables, etc.). But let's be honest. Does a speed difference of a few milliseconds per page-turn really justify the big gap in CPU power?

02-24-2005, 08:02 PM	#3
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Here is my simple math. I had: BEFORE: a Clie 760CD with a 33mhz Motorola Dragonball CPU. NOW: a Dell Axim X50v with a 624mhz Intel XScale PXA270 CPU, the fastest on the market these days. You should expect lightning-fast zippy responses from a today's high-end PDA when you compare it to a 3 years old oldtimer Clie. But you know what? My Dell doesn't seem to be any faster than the Clie in standard situations such as when using standard PIM functionalities to enter new contact or todo items. Other applications, admittedly, run smoother, such as Plucker or Replico, both which require more CPU power when processing a document's rich content (images, tables, etc.). But let's be honest. Does a speed difference of a few milliseconds per page-turn really justify the big gap in CPU power?