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o9guy · 07-24-03, 02:54 PM

I dunno. I have been noticing a lot of similarities with the way a full blown Windows installation and how PPC act. To be specific, Windows always seems to want to cache the icons for files. If you have a directory full of very large windows files, it takes longer and longer to see the folder's contents and the folder size grow. Also, this activity is mimicked when connecting a PPC to a network share in windows. In addition to that, the bandwidth pipeline for the CF card and the SD card seem to be far less than optimized. I have read from my 256MB sandisk and my 256MB CF card from USB readers for Windows with FAR more speed than from my Axim. Even so, there are two points to consider. One, there aren't many handhelds that are so much better in the SD / CF throughput. Second, no matter how you look at it, it's still impressive as can be that they were able to add all of the functionality to something no bigger than a deck of cards.

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o9guy Aximsite Prospect Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: In a house Posts: 2 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I dunno. I have been noticing a lot of similarities with the way a full blown Windows installation and how PPC act. To be specific, Windows always seems to want to cache the icons for files. If you have a directory full of very large windows files, it takes longer and longer to see the folder's contents and the folder size grow. Also, this activity is mimicked when connecting a PPC to a network share in windows. In addition to that, the bandwidth pipeline for the CF card and the SD card seem to be far less than optimized. I have read from my 256MB sandisk and my 256MB CF card from USB readers for Windows with FAR more speed than from my Axim. Even so, there are two points to consider. One, there aren't many handhelds that are so much better in the SD / CF throughput. Second, no matter how you look at it, it's still impressive as can be that they were able to add all of the functionality to something no bigger than a deck of cards. __________________ You can lead a horse to water, but you can not make him put on a swimsuit.