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Summary: Palm M100- Super Buy! Highly Recommended
Review: I Recently bought the M100 after comparing the IIIE, IIIXE and Handspring Visor Models. What made me buy the Palm M100. Three reasons. 1. Palm's reputation of quality, and the look. I'm sorry but it's cool. Sure the screen is a bit smaller, but I'm not writing War and Peace on this thing! 2. The fact that I only wanted to replace my organizer and have room for a couple of games. Actually I have over 15 games on this along with a good chunk of info and still have over 75% of memory. Sure 8 mb is nice to have, but it's also another $100 bucks. I can't see myself spending more money on additional game-boy like cartridges. Sure for developers and heavy power users the visor is probably the way to go, but I didn't like the fact I had to pay $179 for a visor and another 30 bucks to serial link it with my older computer. That's $209 plus tax to start versus $149 for the Palm. Moreover, the Visor 8mb would have been over $279 dollars vs. $149 just to start out. FORGET IT. Like I said remeber what you are buying it for.!! 3. The way the standards are evolving and the way new devices are coming out, the next best thing is always around the corner, so again remind yourself what you are buying this for. The way I figure if something too cool comes out, (say after 6 months or so,when the flash module palms, new visors or the next best pocket pc version comes out, I'll just give the m100 to my daughter.
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Summary: DON'T BUY IT!
Review: Horrible. 25% less screen space then a normal palm, but it's the same size. Yes the clock is cool, but face it, for about the same price you can get a Handspring Visor, with FULL functuality with a springboard slot!!!! The Palm feels good in the hand, but it ends their. Please trust me on this, Ibought a M100 and I uste my Visor way way way more. It's hard to read text, because it's so small! And for a clock I have a watch. And the faceplates are garbage. They just make the screen deeper set into the device. You will want a visor, or at least a Palm IIIe
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Summary: Its Still The IIIe
Review: In my opinion, Palm shoudnt have messed with the 3e, I liked the old styling better, but the functionality is still there. The M100 is a great product overall. The user interface is easy enough to learn in a few minutes, but not dumbed down so experienced users would find it fustrating. The included software is wonderful, and free third-party add-on software is plentiful and easy to install.Like Its IIIe Predecessor, the M100 dissapointigly lacks an expansion slot, however, the 2 megs of memory proved more than enough for me. If you feel you would need more memory, I would suggest the Vx, however, its larger capacity is a larger Hit to the wallet. In my opinion the M100 is a the perfect trade off between affordability and capacity.
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Summary: Not as Good as Handspring's Visor
Review: I tried the m100 and have to say I was disappointed. It has a very small plastic screen, flimsy, toy-like body and no expandability at all. It's also not Mac-compatible out of the box. I ended up getting Handspring's Visor Solo for the same price and am much happier (plus, it fixes all the problems mentioned above).
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Summary: 5 estrellas pues es bueno para los que se inician en palms!
Review: Yo tuve una gran experiencia con el palm 100, y le doy cinco estrellas pues es bueno para los que se inician en palms. Es rápido y tiene las funciones básicas para echar a un lado tanto papelero en nuestra cartera. Además el precio no está nada mal, y activarlo es bastante fácil.
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Summary: Sucks compared to Visor
Review: This is a Palm device and does what normal PalmPilots do...but not much else. If you're going to get a 2 MB unit, get the Visor Solo, which is $20 more and supports USB and has an expansion slot. For users that actually need more than 2 MB (like me), buy the 8 MB Visor Deluxe...
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Summary: Campain Runner!!!!!!
Review: This palm is the best one yet. I have had many of other and none compair. I help run a national campain and everything is on my palm. I trust it to get me anywhere from NH to CA. It is a great product and I would definatly give it to a friend.
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Summary: good size
Review: i got the m100 as a gift, and while i asked for something a little nicer, it works pretty fast, and all the programs are organized well. it is really light, and thin. overall its a good project and i would recommend it.
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Summary: Sweet price point for a basic organizer
Review: I am a computer programmer. Yet I hate to deal with complicated interfaces. I want to press as few buttons as possible to get the job done. This Palm, or any other Palm allows you to do what you want without fuss. With a Palm organizer, you spend far more time using the device than in the care and feeding of the device. Where this one does well is that it is a perfect entry-level organizer for people who have been put off by the high price of, say, a Palm Vx. It is simple. It is clean. My mom could use it. Most people need a basic organizer, with maybe, one extra application. For them, this Palm shines. 2MB is a whole lot of memory unless you want to jam half-a-dozen AvantGo channels into it. That said, the flip cover looks really cheap and does not snap to the bottom of the device. It does not add much protective value to the device. The plastic casing seems sturdy. Mine has already withstood a 7 foot drop onto carpeting with not a scratch. The screen though smaller is sharp (when compared to my older PalmPilot, and easy on the eyes). The clock is a nice additional touch. If you've been waiting to ditch your paper organizer, this is the time.
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Summary: More memory! Now!
Review: The m100 is the kind of device Palm should have released when they put out the Vx, in other words functional and affordable. Unfortunately, the m100's major weakness is what could also turn someone to the Visor: lack of memory. 2 Megabytes of RAM is fine for regular tasks, and unless you want to load it up with dictionaries or huge numbers of volumes or game apps 2 is pleanty. If you want to do things like put in dictionaries and the like, you'll need more space to work with. Could it be that this 2 megs is expandable, like the older Palms were? Who knows. We should hope so. One minor let-down was that exantion ports have been left out of the design. As compact-flash and the like have yet to prove themselves in the market this could be seen as a minor weakness, but given that the extra memory (storage, at least) could have come from an extra card perhaps some more thought will need to go in to design next time. This was a device built for price, but also seemingly for fashion. Replacable faceplates, new and different designer cases, etc. lend to the image that this is the portable for the college (or younger) set. Just as well, however, since this is probably the least expensive mobile terminal a person could hope to find. For those who want a mobile unit, but don't want to pay a fortune for one or take any risks on a used unit, the m100 is the way to go. For those who are looking for a little more expandability, wait to see what the techies will do with it. There may be room for extention yet.
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