[CUBE] Pocket PC syncing

[Rick Rodman]

Did you see my review of PocketMac the other day?  I'll repeat it.  
Both you and Hal say it's "heresy" to use PocketPC, but I don't agree.  
Use what does the job.  PocketPC has some good features.  For me, the 
clincher was the ability to store regular text files on the unit and 
sync them between the computers.

I'm using PocketMac 3.1 on a Cube (1GHz, 1GB, 40GB HD, Panther) with an 
Audiovox Thera (PocketPC 2002) PDA phone.  It's very slow; ActiveSync 
under Windows takes maybe 30 seconds, PocketMac takes 7+ minutes.  
PocketMac is very thorough and seems to work fairly well.  File syncing 
is the slowest part, sometimes it locks up and you have to start it 
over.  BTW I am using Entourage as the PIM; I have over 200 tasks in a 
number of categories, about 300 contacts, and about 70 files in my 
documents folder.  If you don't have as many tasks, contacts or files, 
syncing will be faster.

PocketMac does not convert Pocket Word documents to Word format.  
However, it does give you an application to edit them.  I haven't tried 
Pocket Excel.

If you're mainly doing addresses, and you're not using the task list 
feature, iCal and Address Book may be OK for you.  I haven't tried 
syncing with them, as I tried that with the T68i (and the Newton) and 
iCal was just too crude for my purposes.

I guess in summary, PocketMac isn't as mature as ActiveSync, but it 
does the job well enough.  I didn't get Missing Sync because it doesn't 
sync to Entourage.  I'm not crazy about paying for downloads with no 
manual or disk, but that seems to be the modern trend.

Feel free to email me if you have any specific questions.

On Nov 20, 2003, at 1:50 PM, Eagle wrote:

> Anyone using "The Missing Sync" for syncing to a Pocket PC?  I know 
> Pocket PC is approaching heresy on a Mac list, but Apple hasn't 
> released a new Newton and I just don't do Graffiti -- tried it and it 
> screwed up my handwriting.
>
> I'm really wanting a PDA, so I'm starting to consider a Pocket PC...
>
> Eagle
>
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