Inkheart lover
New member
Hey all!
Just another pondering for today ... I've got a Palm T|X handheld, and whilst I am really, really happy with the overall product - particularly the features it includes for the price ... a small part of me can't help but wonder why on earth the newest Palm handhelds (T|X, LifeDrive etc.) don't come with Palm OS Cobalt (v6) instead of the standard Garnet (v5)?? The reason that I ask, is because it seems like Cobalt was built ground up, and contained some great improvements over Garnet, particularly with regards to performance ...
For example, from what I have read, the entire Cobalt OS has been written in native ARM code, which would take full advantage of the switch from the early Motorola Processors (which were from memory had clock speeds of 8Mhz - 33 Mhz) to the new Intel ARM processors (which start from 100Mhz and go to 500MHz+). Also, Cobalt apparently truely supports multi-tasking and multi-threading ... whereas Garnett and earlier versions only 'simulate multitasking'.
I know it's being incredibly picky, but there are some minor lags in performance that I am getting from time to time ... particularly when launching and using power hungry apps like TCMCP, PocketTunes, AvantGo or DocumentsToGo ... and if Cobalt can help in this regard and more, why don't we see it anywhere??
I must be missing something ... any takers??
Just another pondering for today ... I've got a Palm T|X handheld, and whilst I am really, really happy with the overall product - particularly the features it includes for the price ... a small part of me can't help but wonder why on earth the newest Palm handhelds (T|X, LifeDrive etc.) don't come with Palm OS Cobalt (v6) instead of the standard Garnet (v5)?? The reason that I ask, is because it seems like Cobalt was built ground up, and contained some great improvements over Garnet, particularly with regards to performance ...
For example, from what I have read, the entire Cobalt OS has been written in native ARM code, which would take full advantage of the switch from the early Motorola Processors (which were from memory had clock speeds of 8Mhz - 33 Mhz) to the new Intel ARM processors (which start from 100Mhz and go to 500MHz+). Also, Cobalt apparently truely supports multi-tasking and multi-threading ... whereas Garnett and earlier versions only 'simulate multitasking'.
I know it's being incredibly picky, but there are some minor lags in performance that I am getting from time to time ... particularly when launching and using power hungry apps like TCMCP, PocketTunes, AvantGo or DocumentsToGo ... and if Cobalt can help in this regard and more, why don't we see it anywhere??
I must be missing something ... any takers??