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Lawsuit Alleges That Palms Damage Motherboards

Posted by michael on from the they-don't-call-it-hotsync-for-nothing dept.

schussat writes: "This brief AP article describes a lawsuit that alleges that syncing a Palm Pilot "damages or destroys the motherboards on certain PC brands." Does anyone know more or have experience with this? Is it even possible to cause damage? The article is not very detailed."

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  1. FUD by Perdo · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Looks like the win CE marketeers are alive again. First bluetooth now this.

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  2. Re:1 crash per week?! by ajs · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Actually, since I've been playing EverQuest more and more, my desktop has been Windows 98 almost exclusively for the last few months (while I use Red Hat Linux at work and on my server).

    Windows has never blue-screened on me (at least not since the last major update which was at least several months ago; can't remember before that...), but here's what I do that might make me unique:

    1. I run Mozilla, not IE. Browser as core OS component... oops.
    2. I do most of my work on Linux systems via SecureCRT. No office, no big, flashy Real Player, etc.
    3. I don't run any services off of my Windows desktop. Any file-sharing, Web serving, etc is done from the Linux server.

    So the 1/week crash myth seems to be a little far-fetched. This was CERTAINLY the case with 3.1 and 95, but 98 was fairly stable. NT 2000 is not too bad, but I use it rarely.

    Windows does get better, which you have to be aware of, if you're going to rationally explain to others why the should use something else.

    Of course, if EverQuest ran under Linux, I would forget I had a Windows partition....