[bast525]

Why NOT use the same ROM? The kitchen I cook with is multicarrier, it's not designed specifically for the 'gimped' VZW Pro. The only difference is that of course with the Sprint you can run a higher page pool. I'm running 16 vs. the 9 MB I run on the VZW. Other than that, what other way was there to make this as close to an apples-to-apples comparison as possible?

FWIW, a friend of mine with the Sprint Pro runs one of the Juicy ROMs and we compared speed on things like file browsing, opening Opera and rotating the screen, and found that my phone performed just as quickly. He didn't want to believe it either :P

As far as TF3D, I don't run it because I don't like it, I have my today screen set up in a way that works perfectly for me and puts all the info I want on one screen (SPB Phone suite for SMS, emails and missed calls, TodayAgenda for tasks and appointments, and Weatherpanel). Why do I want to spread this information across multiple tabs? Why turn one glance into multiple steps? Just so my phone can look more cool doing it? No thanks. It had nothing to do with TF3d not performing well. On Scrosler's ROM's, TF3d ran perfectly smooth. My choice not to use it has nothing to do with TF3d running slowly because the VZW Pro just can't handle it, because on a good ROM it can handle it just fine.

But you see what I meant? Sprint users are just CONVINCED that the VZW Pro just HAS to be soooo much slooooowwwerrrrr. First off, the processor is the same, whether the model number is the same or not, they are clocked the same and they benchmark the same. Try the SK Tools CPU benchmarks like the Floating Point Calculations test. VZW Pro performs just as well as the Sprint pro. Same thing with the CPU portion of the test on VS Benchmark.

As far as RAM... RAM only makes a device fast, or rather, LACK of RAM only makes a device SLOW, when you open so much stuff that you get very low. As I stated above, in my typical usage, even when I used to run TF3d, I never got down to less than 20 MB free on the VZW Pro. 20 MB in WinMo is not a critically low level. My i760 normally ran with mid-20 MB's. I didn't notice the device running any slower when RAM *did* get that low.

So unless you are running 20 apps at the same time (by which point all the RAM in the world isn't going to change the fact that the processor is going to be struggling and your phone will run slow be it Sprint, VZW or otherwise), if you put the two Pro's side by side, as I have done, you will not see a difference in performance. If you choose not to believe that, well... whatever you need to tell yourself to feel better about your choice in carriers, I guess. I laid out the cash to see for myself, so convinced that the Sprint Pro would just HAVE to be faster, only to find out that just wasn't the case.