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Old 11-07-2008, 09:32 AM
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Re: Question about the speed on the Touch Pro...
Haha, the Windows 98 on PPC thing was under an emulator. It is impossible to get 98 to run natively on these phones, as they use ARMv4i cpus, whereas Win98 is written for x86 processors. The only reason Linux can boot is because it's open source and readily able to be compiled for any CPU architecture GCC will target, arm being one of them. Arm processors aren't as powerful as x86 cpus, hence it being slower. Also, I'd argue that WinMo 6.1, especially with TF3D, is much more demanding than Windows 98.

Laptops use batteries bigger than the Touch Pro, and last significantly less time as well. I'm sure they could enlarge the phone, stuff a full blown x86 CPU in there, and make it faster... but then your battery life, size, and heat issues would be worse. Significantly worse.
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