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Ron Natalie wrote:
I will also mention that these newer systems are being sold with
XM/Baron Services as the weather provider. I'm not sure how the
previous method of satellite phone weather may have impacted system
performance.


No, I was referring to the XM datalink. It looks like more hp in the
PDA solved the problem. They seemed to think at the time it was a
solvable problem.


I think the faster PDAs combined with optimized code probably helped
solve the problem. I believe that they re-wrote the XM protocol stack
for the newest code that was released recently, but had made several
optimizations to be previously.

I will say that I've seen new TabletPCs with WxWorx software show the
hourglass quite often during some operations. High-res terrain, map
features, and weather all require some horsepower.


JKG