New Palm

[Psyborx]

I currently own a Tungsten C and itst great but I think its time to buy a new palm so I was wondering which one of these its the best to emulate SNES with LJP

• Tungsten T5
  
• Lifedrive
  
• Tungsten E2
  

I was thinking of buying the Lifedrive because Im already used to the WiFi, but if the recepcion is as bad as the T|C I would have to wait til the warranty is over to pull the antenna out, a and it has a 4Gb Hard Drive But Im not sure if it runs the LJP without problems (like my T|C)

[Tinnus]

The T|E2 runs at 200MHz I think so it's the slowest one. T|T5 and LD both run at 416MHz which is good for emulation.

NFVS per NVFS, I'd say T5 if you've got the money. LD has trouble pressing more than one key at a time, and really, the HD won't make that much of a difference for carrying ROMs seeing that you can buy one (or more) SD card by the difference between it and the T5.

So my advice is, T5 + 1GB card(s).

[jackiemac]

I like my LifeDrive. The way I looked at it I have 4GB + whatever cards I choose to always have with me. And copying files to the hard drive is much faster than copying to a card. DriveMode makes it easy to copy files to the drive or card.

WiFi was deciding factor as well, I use it quite a bit. Reception is 'interesting'. It actually picks up routers my laptop doesn't see. And while LifeDrive may show only a couple of bars reception, the browsers seems to chug away quite well. My friends envy me when I pull out my LifeDrive and find free WiFi to look up movie times or directions to a restaurant. :-)

Response is a bit slower when switching between large apps, but it doesn't bother me too much. You can buy SharkCache to alleviate the delay if you really can't stand it. I'm guessing Palm will fix the disk caching algorithms in the near future, or at least make it more configurable.

The button configuration on the LifeDrive is positioned well for GB games -- more natural A & B button positions. LifeDrive does have trouble pressing more than one button at a time, but LifeKeys from our friends at PalmPowerUps fixes that. :-)

GB and SNES games work well, with UDMH. Every now and then I have to soft reset. Also, storing games on a card (rather than the hard disk) seems to be more stable -- don't know why. I running version 0.92T (I think), so I haven't been able to try Genesis games.

Sorry for the long post. I hope this helps.

I'd be happy to try out your latest build of LJP on my LifeDrive, if you like.
:-)

-jackie

[Psyborx]

Thanks for your suggestions, I think I'll buy the lifedrive because it has built in Wi Fi