Wednesday, August 16, 2000

Pondering the Imponderable -- 10:05 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

The FedEx guy stopped back a second time yesterday and I got my replacement Visor Deluxe. I immediately slapped a screen protector on before I scratched this one up at all. To my amazement, when I ran the Quartus.net benchmark I got 158%! My old one usually got 97%. I skimmed through some of the articles on the Visor Central forums only to find out that I should have been getting 158% all along! Apparently there was more wrong with my old one than the fact that it ate batteries. Once again, kudos to Handspring for getting my replacement to me so quickly. I don't expect things to be perfect, but I do expect that companies will work quickly to correct things when they aren't. It's nice to see that Handspring is one of those companies. And no, they didn't pay me a red cent to say that.

UPDATE! 11:30 P.M. Upon further review, the benchmarking problem appears to be the fault of the Afterburner Hack. What I didn't know is that some settings are not reset to the defaults when you disable Afterburner. As a result, I was unwittingly removing some of the optimizations that Handspring made to the Visor.

If you are a sports freak like I am (Heaven help you), then do yourself a favor and check out Nick Bakay.com. Bakay is the man behind the "Tale of the Tape" segments on ESPN and is also the voice behind Norbert on The Angry Beavers on Nickelodeon.

News for 08/16/2000

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