Question about the speed on the Touch Pro...

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Ok, this may seem like a dumb post, but I really don't know too much about WM...

Yesterday, I was playing around with my Touch Pro, and it got me thinking a bit...

If I were to build a computer with a Pentium II chip running 500+ mhz, add 288 MB of regular SDRAM, and supply graphics with a crappy onboard graphics chip on a cheap motherboard, and also install a small hard drive, it would easily run Windows 98, and probably fairly quickly.

I imagine that Windows 95 and 98 are much more demanding operating systems than Windows Mobile 6.1. So that brings me to my question: Why is operating a device like this so slow in comparison to a desktop computer of comparable hardware? Is it BUS speed? Data transfer rate from the internal storage? Mobile processing not strong enough?

I just don't get it. This isn't a thread about me being mad about my Touch Pro at all, though. I think it's the fastest WM device I've ever owned, but now that they're getting this much RAM and processing power in them, I'm starting to have some of these questions.

Can anyone shed some light on the technicality of this and the reasoning behind it? Thanks!