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RE: Why would you pay 100$ for speed?
by loading the very nicely written Afterburner Hack. The Clock Speed of the Dragonball CPU's
is software selectable, thus you can set it for as high as 45 MHz if you really want to.
Afterburner is VERY stable and I've been running a Palm V for the last 6 months at 37 MHz with
no ill effects or crashes. In fact, I run it on my new Visor Edge at 37 MHz. This gives me a
benchmark performance of 270. If you register and pay for Afterburner, you can go as high as
45 MHz. YMMV
I agree with the above post that for most Palm OS programs, clock speed is highly irrelevent.
However, for large databases to load up or certain really big programs (like e-pocrates and QID,
both reall large medical references for the Palm PDA's), the start up time is reduced from around
5 seconds to almost instant. That to me is all the speed I need for now.
Dave
RE: Why would you pay 100$ for speed?
- OS 3.5.x adds a few nice features
- 4-bit grayscale support, ie 16 shades of gray
- Faster Processor
i think that warrants the extra cost
Get rid of deluxe!
AfterBurner
RE: AfterBurner
is it worth it?
RE: Why pay $100
Visor & OmniSky
Also, you may be able to upgrade a Delux from OS3.1 to 3.2. Palm's upgrade runs as an app in RAM, it does not load into flash ROM. Which means you must reinstall it if you have a hard reset.
I use 3.1 in my TRGpro & 3.2 in my Platinum & so far have not noticed any differences.
Visor Platinum
screen
RE: screen
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Why would you pay 100$ for speed?