PocketMatrix

I got an Ipaq 3870 right now but I am waiting for the new xscales to come out so I can get one of those. They have better battery life than the current PPC's do so in turn will last longer with a pc card hard drive on them. My Ipaq has been having some problems and has been send to the shop 4 times now this month and is really starting to annoy me so that is the main reason i am looking for a new PPC and figure than I should get an xscale if I am going to go through all the trouble. Thanks for the help. If anyone else has some comments about the drive, I would love to hear em. one last thing, is there any differnece in the Kingston and toshiba drive?

-Tweak

Here is a link to a HD with a built in battery, so it will last longer. It says its for an HPC but as far as I can tell, it should work with any device running WinCE 2.11 or higher as long as you have a Type II PC Card slot. I know Ipaqs dont have PC card slots so here is a link to an adapter too.

Travel HD link

PC Card Type II adapter link

The only difference between the Kingston and Toshiba PC Card hard drives are the stickers stuck on each. For some reason I keep leaning towards Kingston, though. They've been making storage cards and only storage cards for a while now and have probably perfected the method since that is their only business.

thanks TechMage I havent looked at compaqs addons page in a while. apparently they have a new pc card adapter. PC Card Expansion Pack Plus it can take 1 type 2 pc card aka the kingston data pack drive and it has a set up so I can add a batter to it. from so of the stuff I am looking at it should give me anywhere from 5-10 hours of battery life with the hard drive on there. thanks again guys.

-Tweak

I'm surprised WMP uses such a small cache. You may take a peek at its settings, then the registry to see if you can set a larger cache size.

Dan East

yeah hopefuly i can fix it.