The new devices are out (non-Axim I know) and they all support the new PXA255 chips with their respective motherboard supporting a 200Mhz FSB. This translates into MUCH better video performance for us videophiles.

Devices like the Toshiba e750 and the new HP line (hold the HP 1900 models) offer full screen high quality picture with high quality sound. The Axim is a very capable machine but it can't hold it's own with true high quality audio and video. The 400Mhz PXA255 is 60% faster than the old PXA250's or the machines with the older motherboards and the PXA255.

<center>Comedy Gold</center>

Hmmm - I've been reading some reviews, and there aren't a lot of devices with a 200 MHz front side bus. Also, video performance has a lot more to do with the graphics chip than the processor or bus speed. There's a reason why the $600 PDAs cost more than the $300 PDAs. Of course, the newer devices are generally better than the older devices. That will always be true.

I was just wondering .. will the Ax go down as a classic PDA? How can it miss -- the first device with memory AND SD AND CF AND a great screen at a blockbuster price point. After almost a year, the competition still hasn't truely met the Axim.

The world may not be perfect yet, but the Axim is (almost).

Please post a link to this 200MHZ FSB 'cause that is not part of any of the Intel specs for the PXA255 that I have read.

-JmE-

I maybe wrong about the 200Mhz bus part but I know that the newer devices use an optimized motherboard for the chip so that the user can wreap the rewards of the chip. Compare this to the Axim which has the PXA255 slapped into the older motherboard which is not optimized for the chip.

I'm don't want to anger many avid Aximites, I am one myself but all I'm saying is that these new devices offer great video performance. This is a multimedia forum and I thought you would be interested in knowing these facts, which you may or may not know.

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No anger here. It is just that the Intel documentation on their site clearly states that the 200 MHZ bus is internal to the processor, and not external. The documents also detail all that is necessary to modify the motherboard for the PXA255 and the external bus remains at 100 MHZ, not 200 MHZ. The PXA255 does not appear to run an external bus of 200 MHZ. As far as the information from Intel goes, the Axim is hardware capable of running the PXA255 to specifications.

I was going to edit my original reply and add "never mind", but your reply arrived before I got back to the post.

In the past, I posted on a few forums many quotes and links from Intel's website showing that the anticipated 200 MHZ bus in relation to the PXA255 was a myth per what I had read from Intel. Does that mean that a manufacturer could not do some other modifications and acheive nice speed increases? Of course not and I still enjoy my Axim or Palm or whatever I happen to be using. No Axim Zealot here, just really interested if a manufacturer does mess with 200 MHZ on the PXA255 as I have posted so much about it.

No problems here, just was curious.

-JmE-