Hi, ext Karl Bellve wrote: > David Fass wrote: >> Just wondering, is there any hope for stable applications on the 770, >> or has that boat sailed? I use AbiWord, which crashes at random >> moments. I use the default browser which also crashes at random >> moments. The computer frequently decides to restart itself at random >> moments. The bluetooth connection goes on and off; the wireless >> connection goes on and off. >> >> Is this just stuff that people live with? > I use the latest hacker edition, which fixed some of the bugs in Opera > but not all. The random crashes in Opera annoy me. At least half of those are due to modern www-pages requiring too much memory. There are also bugs in Flashplayer v7 in case you've enabled Flashplayer and Flash content normally takes quite huge amounts of memory. You should disable Flash and enable it only for specific pages where you really need it. If you disable JavaScript too (some of the JavaScript programs on www-pages behave also really badly memory-wise), that helps too. > The piss-poor media > player doesn't play much of anything, unlike mplayer. These are some of > the reasons why I won't be replacing my Nokia 770 with anything else > from Nokia. I want a device that isn't dependent upon a vendor for its > main software. This is why I like the ASUS eee. It runs standard > applications like Firefox and Thunderbird. It's a different compromise. It doesn't fit into your pocket, so it can have larger battery and therefore more CPU power and memory. I don't see why you couldn't run Firefox or Thunderbird also on N800/N810, but they use so much memory with current www-pages that compared to ITOS Microb or Opera based browsers, they really wouldn't be usable. (Their UIs aren't really designed for 226 DPI screen either) > With my experience with Opera > on the Nokia, I doubt I will use any device that has Opera as its main > browser. The people behind Opera should be embarrassed. > > Why can't I just get Opera updated, or the email client? Why does the > whole device need to be flashed? This is why I won't buy Nokia again. In the future there is support for in-place system updates (similar to Debian/Ubuntu), but you need to remember that doing large system updates through package management may not give give you all the Flash storage, (startup) performance and memory usage improvements and can actually decrease those (mostly because it's not feasible to run prelink on the device). And it can fail if you don't have enough space for the update. - Eero
