X3i Review

PyroGamer.com has reviewed the Dell Axim X3i!
Here is a link: http://www.pyrogamer.com/nuke/module...content3&id=61

I was also wondering if anybody has any feedback on my review...thanks!

[zack0007]

Where is your review. Would love to read it. Waiting for mine to ship! So very hungry for info>

[Chris Leckness]

and even with the new proccesor it is not as fast as many other Pocket PC's, Dell has made a solid product.

The x3i is the peppiest ppc I have ever held. Never held an Asus, but I have held darn near everything else and even the iPaq Flagship PPC, the 5555 is slower than my X3i.

That's all....

[JmE]

(I have not read the review yet... waiting on the page to load)

I wonder if they put the X3 in Max Performance mode? If not, then it is being compared to PPCs running a fixed PXBus of 199 mhz aganst the autoscale setting of 99mhz PXBus on the X3.

-JmE-

Well...I cannot say much on that subject. That is just what the Spb Benchmark results told me.

Hmm...I belive that when I tested it, the Axim was in auto-scale...
I will do a re-test tomorrow with it on Max Performance mode.

[JmE]

Yes, I will be interested to see if it makes the number change.

Thanks. :)

-JmE-

I think it will since the bus speed will be uped.

[JmE]

Yes, it should... that is what I am anticipating in the numbers.

-JmE-

guess we just have to wait

The new results have been posted. I have replaced them with the old ones in the review. I must say, the Axim X3i is dramiticaly faster. The only PocketPC it cannot beat is the Asus MyPal.

[JmE]

I thought it would improve. ;)

Thanks for doing the benchmarks again.

I see benchmarks for the X5 running WM2003 out there and I notice that some of them do not know to put it in Max Performance when comparing with other PPCs that only run in that mode.

Sometimes I wonder if HP did not do that so that they would always come out well on benchmarks. :crooked:

-JmE-

Yes...these new benchmarks definetly build my confidence in the X3. I wish they could improve on battery life without making you get that huge battery though :/

Ya, wish that battery life was better