Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 21st Feb 2004 11:13 UTC
I already have a PalmV PDA with PalmOS 3.5. I never use it. I practically have absolutely no need for an organizer. Yet, I wanna buy a new one. That geek gene in me (that my mother unsuccessfully tried to kill over the years) what really wants is a "truly mobile PC" that just isn't a laptop. So, for the last few days I was shopping around the Internet for a new PDA (preferably a PocketPC this time) that would fit the kind of thing I am looking for. I was... horrified to find out that what I need isn't... invented yet.
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For years I have been dreaming of a small portable device to do mobile field recording and audio editing,the smaller the better.But after several wild goose chases I have concluded that nothing exists at the present time to do this type of work.the laptops have such crappy sound chips in them compared to a desktop pc ,there's no comparison,plus even a laptop can be cubersome in some circumstances.I ended up with an IBM Thinkpad running Windows98 SE and BeOS but this is definitely not the answer.
BeOS would be great on something like this if everything worked properly but sadly ,it don't and Windows... well everything works ok but it's a slow Klunky platform for media work and enen though I may have to use 5 different apps under BeOS to get the same job done as one will do in Windoze, BeOS is quicker and more real-time.Which brings us up to the present day,While that FlipStart looks damn interesting,I doubt there's a snowball's chance in hell it would run BeOS,and even if it did it would be somehow crippled,stuff just wouldn't work,and WinXP is a far cry from my media creation platform of choice.Which leaves us with Palm whom have the technology of BeOS in their back pocket,to build what I would like,and if they would build something on the level of the FlipStart with BeOS technology,and decent quality sound recording capabilities,now there's where I would put my money. And Actually if it would play the games I can on R5 that would be plenty enough games for me But I'm sure Palm would see no demand for this,so I'll sit here and dream on.Who knows maybe someday M$ will "inovate"a real-time media OS and run it on the FlipStart.