indigenous
10-19-2004, 01:22 PM
I was originally going to post this in Lance's "My New T5" thread, but since this is longish I didn't want to detract from the focus of his efforts.
First, thanks Lance and others for all the great and useful information on the T5. You are performing a real service for all of us Palm fans out here in lurker land :-)
I know asking if the T5 is a good upgrade from an M100 might be a silly question, but I am quite fond of my M100. It's been a good pal for quite a while.
Some background:
I use the M100 mainly to read ebooks, take short notes in meetings, keep a moderate set of contact info and play simple games and jot down writing snippets. In fact at night I use it to read in bed with the lights off because the soft green backlight is easy on the eyes and doesn't bug my wife ;-)
Batteries last for weeks, but they do have to be changed, since the M100 can't charge the batteries through the connector. I always have my M100 in my pocket. I also have a cell phone that I have to recharge daily, so recharging the Palm wouldn't be a big deal to me.
My main reason for wanting to upgrade is for the larger, higher res color screen and the much larger memory - the M100 only has about 2MB. I often finding myself having to choose which applications or documents to delete to fit something new in the memory. The screen of the M100 is often difficult to read in low lighting -- the kind of situation where the lighting is low enough to make the screen hard to see but the backlighting doesn't help.
Also lately I find I need to recalibrate the digitizer several times a day. It's getting annoying enough that I am ready to move on.
I don't really want a PPC. I use Windows 2000 at work (I'm an engineer with Boeing) and have a homebrew PC at home that I built for running PC specific apps while I was working on my Masters degree. But I also have a Mac dual 2GHZ G5 and an iBook that I much prefer to use. I like Palm's simpler interface.
I mentioned my job because I can't bring a PDA with a built-in camera, WiFi or voice recorder into the classified area where I work. I have considered a TE, but I was hoping they'd come out with a new model with the larger color screen of the T3 - which I also considered. It really looks like the T5 is that model. Thankfully the price isn't really a big issue with me.
So, should I go for it? Sorry for the longish post, but I am trying a make a rational decision ... because my gut just says go for it, but I don't want to miss any obvious alternatives.
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Indi
First, thanks Lance and others for all the great and useful information on the T5. You are performing a real service for all of us Palm fans out here in lurker land :-)
I know asking if the T5 is a good upgrade from an M100 might be a silly question, but I am quite fond of my M100. It's been a good pal for quite a while.
Some background:
I use the M100 mainly to read ebooks, take short notes in meetings, keep a moderate set of contact info and play simple games and jot down writing snippets. In fact at night I use it to read in bed with the lights off because the soft green backlight is easy on the eyes and doesn't bug my wife ;-)
Batteries last for weeks, but they do have to be changed, since the M100 can't charge the batteries through the connector. I always have my M100 in my pocket. I also have a cell phone that I have to recharge daily, so recharging the Palm wouldn't be a big deal to me.
My main reason for wanting to upgrade is for the larger, higher res color screen and the much larger memory - the M100 only has about 2MB. I often finding myself having to choose which applications or documents to delete to fit something new in the memory. The screen of the M100 is often difficult to read in low lighting -- the kind of situation where the lighting is low enough to make the screen hard to see but the backlighting doesn't help.
Also lately I find I need to recalibrate the digitizer several times a day. It's getting annoying enough that I am ready to move on.
I don't really want a PPC. I use Windows 2000 at work (I'm an engineer with Boeing) and have a homebrew PC at home that I built for running PC specific apps while I was working on my Masters degree. But I also have a Mac dual 2GHZ G5 and an iBook that I much prefer to use. I like Palm's simpler interface.
I mentioned my job because I can't bring a PDA with a built-in camera, WiFi or voice recorder into the classified area where I work. I have considered a TE, but I was hoping they'd come out with a new model with the larger color screen of the T3 - which I also considered. It really looks like the T5 is that model. Thankfully the price isn't really a big issue with me.
So, should I go for it? Sorry for the longish post, but I am trying a make a rational decision ... because my gut just says go for it, but I don't want to miss any obvious alternatives.
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Indi