[otispunkmeyer]

Im in the market for a new PDA, my Zire72 is on its last legs and i need a replacement...the battery just will not hold a charge for very long at all and to be fair it feels quite "old" and "dated"

i like the palm OS but i cant decide wether or not to jump ship to the windows mobile (or is it pocket PC?)

Pros for the dell are....
+ WiFi and a internet browser that seems to work quite well
+ hopefully will natively support word, pp etc
+ 640x480 screen
+intel GMA 2700 with 16mb of its own memory....it can accelerate Mpeg-1, -2 and -4

Pros for the Palm...
+ familiar with the OS
+comes with documents to go so word docs arent a problem
+3.85Gb of storage

palm is slightly weaker in the web browser, but i wont be using that much anyway. its got a slower CPU (416mhz intel Xscale vs 624mhz Xscale) and no graphics chip to help it out with media such as video.

i mainly use my PDA as a kind of calender, carrying useful documents, as a Sat Nav device with TomTom navigator 5, and as a means to jot down lots of things (like a note pad)

now the palm has a nice notepad thing where you jus write on the screen.... does the windows OS have something like this?

oh and a big factor... cost. Dell is £280 while the Palm is nearly £100 less!