Advice requested - Best pocket PC for chess

[Jaimes Conda]

I will buy a pocket PC for chess. But which one is best suited?
Don't want to pay a fortune. And want reasonable battery life.

Can more than one program be downloaded into these PC's?

I would use Delfi or Grandmaster to play against then use the second stronger engine for a quick game analysis.

Any help would be greatly appriciated. Thanks Jaimes.

[Cubeman]

You mostly get what you pay for.The HP iPaq range are good value in my opinion.Stay away from the older pre 2002 models as PPC 2002 was a poor OS.Also the battery life is better on more modern ones and it is easy to have a spare handy which only takes a few seconds to exchange.Any thing with WM 5.0 or WM 6.0 are very good as all information is kept safe ater a battery dying.There are some good buys on auction sites and many times you can get a good as new version for half the retail price.
Also you can have many chess playing programs on the device at the same time.Just sometimes you have to manually shut down an engine if you have too many apps going at the same time.My favourite PPC is the iPaq hx2750 with 2003 S.E OS.As I can have up to 32 MB ram for hash and the intel 624 Mhz processor is as fast as you can get on a PPC.

[Jaimes Conda]

You mostly get what you pay for.The HP iPaq range are good value in my opinion.Stay away from the older pre 2002 models as PPC 2002 was a poor OS.Also the battery life is better on more modern ones and it is easy to have a spare handy which only takes a few seconds to exchange.Any thing with WM 5.0 or WM 6.0 are very good as all information is kept safe ater a battery dying.There are some good buys on auction sites and many times you can get a good as new version for half the retail price.
Also you can have many chess playing programs on the device at the same time.Just sometimes you have to manually shut down an engine if you have too many apps going at the same time.My favourite PPC is the iPaq hx2750 with 2003 S.E OS.As I can have up to 32 MB ram for hash and the intel 624 Mhz processor is as fast as you can get on a PPC.

Thanks for the inof. Alex. Jaimes