Re: What chip!
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Re: What chip!
I have a 92 that I bought with my _very_ hard earned money and an 83 that
is being loaned to me. I'm really impressed with the 83, has tons of
useful features so far. only thing lacking really is some symbolic
algebra and maybe some calculation power for eulers method. but my
attitude is use a desktop if your cranking numbers. I'm limiting my
discussion to portable stuff, excluding so-called "laptops".
back to this thread, I hope all GC die and get replaced with something better.
the newton is the most impressive palmtop/hhpc/etc I've seen. I said the
newton
and not a windowsCE because from what I've seen the newton has _much_
better (albeit more $$) hardware and good software, seems to have lotsof
developers working on it. the strongARM (by digital?) just blows away
intel/motorola, so if you're going to base product on hardware, use RISC
and use something with low-power. that excludes most anything by intel.
The 2 gripes I have against the pilot are 1.) no keyboard, but you can
hook up a newton keyboard to type 2.) it's prettymuch a one-purpose
device, so I figure for the same price get a MP130, optional keyboard,
same ram, and I bet more software. unfortunately, it's now owned by
Apple.
saying "use intel" just makes _no_ sense, use motorola (like the _92_
does), or use strongARM. they have some sort of new chip out, smaller,
faster, does more, etc. does intel do _any_ risc? I doubt it.
Jesse1s@hotmail.com
In article <199709122101.QAA24790@infocom.com>, James Hall
<jrhall@INFOCOM.COM> wrote:
> > never mind that stuff, just get a newton MP2K and goto www.sineware.com,
> > check out their calc for the newton. it beats the 86 I bet, and hopefully
> > some sort of slimmed down mathematica is coming soon.
> Ok, let me get this straight. MP2K is $1000, 86 is $119 (at local
> office max). I'm sure that a mp2k's processor is faster than a 86 and
> I'm sure that someone MIGHT have a better calc. program for the mp2k
> then the ti-os for 86, but I'd rather have my 86 stolen than have a
> mp2k stolen. not to mention that for the price of a mp2k I could get
> a pentium 90-133mhz laptop (though, I doubt any teacher would let
> either the mp2k or the laptop into the classroom, any teacher in
> highschool that is (in my area))
> If I got ANY pda device it'd be a PALMPILOT PRO with 1mb ram; those
> are the best.
> >
> > plus digitals ARM(advanced risc machines) has a _new_ chip better than
> > anything intel (not the freak who wants world domination power) OR
> > motorola has or will have. forget the name, but it's in some phones and
> > stuff, more processing speed, less volts and has other "stuff" on the
> > dime-sized packet.
> >
> > also, at the rate new chips come out replacable roms, etc would not make
> > sense, because it's cheaper just to buy a whole new machine than to design
> > it so you can get at all the innards.
> >
> > my two cents, maybe take this to ti-hardware.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jesse1s@hotmail.com
> >
> >
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