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Originally posted by Mattman@Jan 30 2003, 03:27 PM
As far as the new XScale processor.....you could always wait around to get the latest and greatest, but you know what....you never get anything, because your waiting for the next latest and greatest thing. If you wait for PXA250 C1, you'll have to wait for the PXA260 that will be announced to be released a month later.
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I understand your point, Mattman, and it's well taken. I would fully expect a PXA260 based AXIM to be more expensive than a PXA250. I bought a PXA250 based device, and I'm happy with that. There's always going to be something newer and better. (See, e.g. Moore's Law
http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/mooreslaw.htm ).
The PXA250 and PXA250 C1 are the same processor though - the latter is just revised so that it works the way it was originally intended to function. Intel isn't charging any more for the PXA250 C1 than for the PXA250. It's a hardware bug-fix, if I'm understanding correctly. I wonder if there's any chance that Dell would issue a recall so that early adopters of the Axim don't suffer for their pioneering spirit...