[G4] Palm OS 4.1

[Mel]

MacFixIt has some coverage on Palm Desktop 4.1 the past few days. You 
might check there.
Mel

On Oct 25, 2003, at 8:40 AM, John Wilson wrote:

> Hi Anne. I only had to upgrade from Palm OS 3.5 to 4.1. Can't remember 
> exactly how I did this but I do remember it worked the first time. I 
> found, however, that trying to use iSync and iCal with Palm OS on Mac 
> OS X caused a world of trouble--double entries, lost data, etc. Much 
> easier to just use Palm Desktop and the HotSync button on the PDA. 
> John
>
> On Oct 24, 2003, at 1:40 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
>
>> At 12:09 AM -0400 10/23/03, John Wilson wrote:
>>> Hi Anne (love that "earthpigz" thing). I'm using Palm OS 4.1 on my 
>>> MDD,
>>> both with OS X (10.2.8) and OS 9.2 with my Sony Clie. Works fine. I
>>> also use Palm OS 4.1 on the PDA. Have you followed the instructions 
>>> for
>>> upgrading on the Palm website? John
>>
>> John,
>>
>> I did - but I did not realize at first that one needs to upgrade the 
>> PDA
>> as well as the Desktop version. So I followed the directions for the
>> Desktop upgrade, but when HotSync did not work and I went back to
>> the site to troubleshoot, I found the PDA 4.1 upgrade does not work
>> on OS X. Their suggestion is that I d/l the Palm OS 4.1 on another
>> computer, but maybe I'll just wait until they come out with an OSX
>> version. Just seems kind of hinky.
>>
>> How did you upgrade your PDA from v.2.6 to v.4.1? Hmmm. Could I
>> do it by rebooting in OS 9, d/l there, and upgrading the PDA in OS9?
>>
>> It seems the only difference in the software really is nice 
>> antialiasing
>> and a nice Aqua background, as opposed to the ugly ones in 2.6 with
>> jaggy type.
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
>> Anne Keller Smith