Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

8MB upgrade hack for Palm V

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the its-all-fun-and-games dept.

An Onimous Cow Herd writes "Beef up your superslim Palm V with an 8 MB upgrade card (and violate your warranty too...). " My PalmPro is looking more dated each day.

3 of 83 comments (clear)

  1. Palm V includes room temperature superconductors! by Wansu · · Score: 2

    Back in aughty-aught, when through hole parts were more commonly used, the "zero-ohm" resistor came about as an inexpensive way to install jumpers with automatic insertion equipment. They had a single black band on them. I was told the story of some old salters pulling a young tech's leg, telling him this zero ohm resistor had a 5% tolerance, haw haw.

    Bassai Dai!

    --
    Wansu, th' chinese sailor
  2. Palm V includes room temperature superconductors! by jgotts · · Score: 2

    Think of the 0 Ohm chip resistor as a jumper. Of
    course even jumpers have a non-zero resistance,
    but this value is small enough to be neglected.

  3. Am I missing something? by Alan+Shutko · · Score: 2

    I think you are missing something, Bruce. Go out and buy that Everex, and use it for a while. Afterwards, tell us which you like more.

    PDAs are something you can't judge by hardware alone because it doesn't matter that much. I haven't used up the 2 MB in my upgraded PPro. I can't _ever_ imagine using up 48MB. More important to me are battery life and overall usability.

    I haven't used a CE machine myself, but I know people who do. They don't use it nearly as much as I do, because it's too slow, isn't as usable, or sucks up batteries. These are important characteristics for something you're going to carry around with you all the time!

    I know one person who has a CE machine with keyboard, and still carries a pen and paper everywhere. He updates the CE with new appts and stuff during downtime at his desk.

    (On a different note, I think the main reason 3com is taking it slow upping the memory on these things is working the OS to the point you don't need a defrag program if you have 8MB.)