[rambo47]

I fooled around with a HP Jounada 548 the other day and I have major PDA envy! That is some sharp color screen. How will the Palm m505 compare to that for sharpness and overall quallity? Not too well I expect. Bummer. With all that memory ( 32 MB) and room for cards like the 64 MB one my buddy had it seems like a sweet machine. Except that it runs WindowsCE. Can it run alternate OS's? Maybe mobile Linux? I sure wish Apple would make a new PDA and a mobile edition of OS X for it. Yeah, I'm dreaming, but its such a nice dream. Sshhh! Don't wake me up.

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I know the Compaq iPaq can run linux, I'm not sure about the Jornada though.

[mikithecrackhead]

sounds like comparing apples and oranges.
microsoft handhelds are trying to be like mini laptops.

palm devices are handheld organizers, with the capability of running some extra applications and devices.

I played with the jornada and ipaq and they are nice. the color screen is great. but for the price, I would pay the additional 2-300 bucks for a low end lap top. ( you could get a brand new one for about $800compact, toshiba,and sometimes you could find HP and IBM)

palm and handspring are doing good. ( could you imagine if all the palm and handspring devices had the apple logo )afterall, those guys all came from apple. Marketing dept. and Engineers from handspring use macs.