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That is a heckuva question. What is so different about my ROMs? In short, the Zen of Palm.
I started using handheld computers 10 years ago with the PalmPilot Professional, a 1MB, 8MHz dynamo that succeeded where the mighty Apple Newton had failed. And it so by doing less with less.
The idea behind Palm's early success (which they sadly seem to have forgotten) was to keep things simple, not try to do too much but do what they do flawlessly. This also seems to be the theory behind the Apple iPhone, though the iPhone lacks too many deal breakers for me (no eReader? Denied!).
My ROMs try to apply that idea to Windows Mobile 5, which itself has gotten more complex over the years. I leave out stuff that you don't need, stuff that's redundant or stuff that that slows the system down. What's left I tune through the registry to run as lean and smooth as possible. I make some changes that other people might think crazy or stupid, but they work.
You could get most of what I do to a C&S ROM by selecting a bare minimum of OEMs in BuildOS and applying my Performance Tweaks OEM (just an RGU file with a companion DSM) containing most of my reg settings. What you'd be missing would be the smaller, finer tweaks I make here and there to other OEM modules before I compile.
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