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brahamt · 06-05-2003, 01:53 PM

Well I thought about this a lot recently, as I ended up buying the NX60 on sale at Compusa for $299.

About 5 months ago, my M505 was starting to act up, and then the dreaded USB sync problem occurred. My friend had gotten like one of the 1st NR70Vs, and he loved it so I went looking. I ended up finding an NR70 at Best Buy for $129 without the software. My friend copied the CD and I was in business.

The problem I had was though I loved the NR70, I had started to load up a bunch of apps and data on it and it began to feel sluggish. The deal came up at Compusa about a week ago and I thought, hmmm, should I?

Here were my issues:

1) Size, though similar in size to the NR70, the NX60 had the little bump out for a CF wireless modem. I ended up deciding this was not a problem as not only was I going to get a wireless card, but a company called ERUWare introduced a driver to but CF memory cards into the slot.

2) OS5. I knew there were some compatibility problems, especially with older apps, but all of the ones I used regularly had been updated so this was no problem.

3) OS5 #2. Memory. This was almost the deal breaker. Depite supposedly having 16M on board, only 11 was available for use. I then discovered Powerrun which let me put all of the memory hogging apps on the memory stick.

The only issue I have, which I did not know about at the time of purchase was the MP3 issue. My NR70 played all of the MP3s I had. When I put the memory stick in the new Clie, some of the tracks refused to play. I found out that the NX60 does not play VBR files nor anything not encoded at 44100. 44100 is not an issue, but most of my files are encoded VBR.

So with the one issue I have, and the benefit of the new platform (MSPro Support, CF Support, Wireless, etc), I'm happy that I got the NX60.

Now about that new NX80 I heard about...

06-05-2003, 01:53 PM	#24
brahamt Groupie Posts: 165 Karma: 6622 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: United States Device: Palm Tungsten T3	Well I thought about this a lot recently, as I ended up buying the NX60 on sale at Compusa for $299. About 5 months ago, my M505 was starting to act up, and then the dreaded USB sync problem occurred. My friend had gotten like one of the 1st NR70Vs, and he loved it so I went looking. I ended up finding an NR70 at Best Buy for $129 without the software. My friend copied the CD and I was in business. The problem I had was though I loved the NR70, I had started to load up a bunch of apps and data on it and it began to feel sluggish. The deal came up at Compusa about a week ago and I thought, hmmm, should I? Here were my issues: 1) Size, though similar in size to the NR70, the NX60 had the little bump out for a CF wireless modem. I ended up deciding this was not a problem as not only was I going to get a wireless card, but a company called ERUWare introduced a driver to but CF memory cards into the slot. 2) OS5. I knew there were some compatibility problems, especially with older apps, but all of the ones I used regularly had been updated so this was no problem. 3) OS5 #2. Memory. This was almost the deal breaker. Depite supposedly having 16M on board, only 11 was available for use. I then discovered Powerrun which let me put all of the memory hogging apps on the memory stick. The only issue I have, which I did not know about at the time of purchase was the MP3 issue. My NR70 played all of the MP3s I had. When I put the memory stick in the new Clie, some of the tracks refused to play. I found out that the NX60 does not play VBR files nor anything not encoded at 44100. 44100 is not an issue, but most of my files are encoded VBR. So with the one issue I have, and the benefit of the new platform (MSPro Support, CF Support, Wireless, etc), I'm happy that I got the NX60. Now about that new NX80 I heard about...