Good 'Ol Dell Axim

[spynoodle]

So I have this Dell Axim X30 pocket PC. The thing's about 6 years old, but since I got it on ebay for $61.50, I figure it's still a better deal than an ipod touch. It only has Windows Mobile 2003 SE, so it doesn't have very good program support. But, whenever I bring it anywhere, people crowd around and say "Wow, what's that thing?" I say "It's sort-of and older version of the ipod touch. I got it cheap on ebay." Then they say "That thing's so cool. It's made by Dell???!! Awesome!!!!" And I just keep it at that. Have you every fooled the public with rare but old technology?

 

[bomberboysk]

I have an older X30 600some mhz myself...been trying to find an X50v though for a decent price, as it can run newer versions of winmo, has more memory/ram, and a nicer display and dedicated gpu to it.

 

[spynoodle]

I have an older X30 600some mhz myself...been trying to find an X50v though for a decent price, as it can run newer versions of winmo, has more memory/ram, and a nicer display and dedicated gpu to it.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I've got the 624Mhz version too. I wish I could install winmobile 5 on it though. It boosts your program support from about 20% to 90%. But, on the upside, I ran a benchmark on it (vsbenchmark graphics benchmark) and surprisingly I think it got a better score than the x51v for some reason. Do you think that windows mobile 5 uses that much more ram?

P.S. Do you have people ooh and ahh at yours too?

 

[bomberboysk]

Yeah, I know what you mean. I've got the 624Mhz version too. I wish I could install winmobile 5 on it though. It boosts your program support from about 20% to 90%. But, on the upside, I ran a benchmark on it (vsbenchmark graphics benchmark) and surprisingly I think it got a better score than the x51v for some reason. Do you think that windows mobile 5 uses that much more ram?

P.S. Do you have people ooh and ahh at yours too?

Not really, i use it mainly as a universal remote these days. Ive been thinking about selling it and then picking myself up an X51v so i can throw winmo 6 on it.

 

[spynoodle]

Not really, i use it mainly as a universal remote these days. Ive been thinking about selling it and then picking myself up an X51v so i can throw winmo 6 on it.

Yeah, I tried the remote software that came on the disc once. If only it friggin supported DirecTV receivers!!! I should try to find some freeware download of something that supports it sometime. It's too bad Dell doesn't make the Axim anymore. It's a mistake to cancel the line in my opinion, seeing how popular they are. I've met a lot of people online that own one.

 

[bomberboysk]

Yeah, I tried the remote software that came on the disc once. If only it friggin supported DirecTV receivers!!! I should try to find some freeware download of something that supports it sometime. It's too bad Dell doesn't make the Axim anymore. It's a mistake to cancel the line in my opinion, seeing how popular they are. I've met a lot of people online that own one.

Yeah, i picked my axim up back when it had came out.

 

[spynoodle]

Yeah, i picked my axim up back when it had came out.

What convinced me to buy one was its processor speed: 624MHz in a thing the size of a floppy disk! Back when I got it a couple years ago I was still using my old Pentium iii Dell desktop that had an 800MHz CPU, so you could guess how much it intrigued me to have a handheld with a processor only 176MHz slower than my desktop CPU.

 

[bomberboysk]

What convinced me to buy one was its processor speed: 624MHz in a thing the size of a floppy disk! Back when I got it a couple years ago I was still using my old Pentium iii Dell desktop that had an 800MHz CPU, so you could guess how much it intrigued me to have a handheld with a processor only 176MHz slower than my desktop CPU.

Well, its totally different architecture. Axim uses an Xscale processor, while desktop pc's use an x86 architecture. The architectures of each are not directly comparable in mhz.

 

[spynoodle]

Well, its totally different architecture. Axim uses an Xscale processor, while desktop pc's use an x86 architecture. The architectures of each are not directly comparable in mhz.

Yeah, I know how that works (eg. Pentium M 1.6GHz is about the same as a 2.8GHz Pentium 4), but I didn't know that it wasn't x86. It still just amazed me anyway though . It's probably about as powerful as a 500MHz Pentium iii, or worse.