Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Schaumburg, IL
Posts: 151

Perhaps you could care less, but I was just wondering, why does the new Visor related software require 25 MB on the desktop PC? I found this on the specs of the Handspring website and picqued my curiosity. What's so different about the Desktop management system that it requires twice as much memory on a PC as the Palm set-up?

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Sydney Australia
Posts: 1883

I guess it's because it runs on Win98 instead off Win95 or NT...

Windows will probably use 20Mb and the visor the Desktop management system will probably use 5...

anyway if you are running Win98 on a machine with 25 meg you probably aren't into techie stuff and won't buy a Visor anyway...

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Schaumburg, IL
Posts: 151

You missed my point Toolkit. I build software installations for a living so the size of an installation can speak volumes about the software inside it. Believe me, I hold no worries about 25 MB on a 20 Gig drive, but it's the question of what's been bundled with the desktop manager? What are the freebies that come along with it? Has the PIM program changed? Nobody has talked about that in their reviews. Or was Handspring just careless and they're passing out a piece of bloated software? That's what I am wondering in asking the question.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: New Mexico, USA
Posts: 112

Well, it needs 25M of hard drive space, and that could be an online user manual with pictures or something like that. I don't know if we can make assumptions about coding efficiency or anything like that from the difference in sizes of the hard drive footprints. Also, a few of the Visor apps are newer/bigger/better(?) and might need more support from the desktop.

And re: the techiness of a particular OS and mem size. Here at work, I've got a win98 box (P2-400, 128M, 6gig), am reasonably techie, and have a Visor on order. I needed to support multiple monitors w/out going macintosh... And now it seems that the USB synching's another 98 plus. Techies and geeks like speed, no?

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john