[P1] palm won't connect

[Barry Lyden]

Interesting to read about all the trouble people have had syncing their 
palms to their macs. I guess I am one one the lucky ones then (I'm not 
complaining).  I used an old HP Jornada for years with my PC at work. 
When it finally died, I bought a Palm Tungsten T with Bluetooth. I use 
the cradle on my PC at work, and a Bluetooth adapter on my iBook at 
home and sync both computers to the Palm without trouble. And of 
course, the Bluetooth adapter uses a USB  port. The only complaints I 
have are that Bluetooth is pretty slow, and isync does some strange 
things, so I tend to avoid it when syncing to the Palm. It's OK for 
syncing bookmarks, address book to idisk, etc.

Just thought I would share my experience.

Barry


On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 12:09  AM, Brian Olesky wrote:

> Most of us who've been using Palms for several years have long 
> accepted the
> fact that their USB sync cradles only work with PC's, and the only way 
> we
> can use them is to get their non-USB cradles and add a serial to USB
> adapter.
>
> It was true 5 years ago, it's true today. I just bought a $600 phone 
> from
> Sprint, with a built-in Palm, and I had to spend $50 more to get a 
> serial
> cable designed for one of their old discontinued models to be able to 
> sync
> it with my iBook.
>
> Life as a dedicated Mac user does have its drawbacks.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On 8/19/03 11:31 PM, "George Slusher" <gslusher at rio.com> wrote:
>
>> Does your iBook have USB? (I thought all of them did.) If so, you 
>> could
>> get a USB cable for the Palm fairly cheaply (Check eBay, for example) 
>> and
>> eliminate the USB-serial converter problem.
>
>
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