Now that we have completed the basic analysis(size, screen), let’s get to what’s under the bone – the classic system hardware review!
First of all, the Aceeca Meazura is a classic OS4 device – in fact, my local distributor once called it ‘m500 w/o sd card’. The machine has a 33MhZ Dragonball VZ processor with 16 MB of RAM – and is pretty fast for OS4 machines. Here are the Speedy results:
Detail [now]
Calc Test 2.61 sec
Mem Test 2.35 sec
Graph Test 2.92 sec
Total 7.88 sec ~38 MHz
190 % / Palm Vx
The machine misses a place in the Speedy top 5 closely by a few points – 41MHz is the entry barrier.
A PalmPi standard benchmark takes about 15.5 seconds which is a decent score – a few comparion results are available here.
The memory layout of the Meazura is classic – 15.7 megabytes of user available RAM. Here is a PalmInternals dump of the memory system:
Heap info (addr, size, flags):
•0 00001B00 0003E500 2000 Dyn
•1 0004010E 00FBFEF2 2000 Stg
•2 02008212 001E7DEE 2001 ROM
Acceca used Palm OS 4.1.2 on the Meazura – thus, the Meazura runs Grafitti 2 instead of the classic.
The Meazura can communicate with the outer world via IR, serial, USB and the proprietary MZIO bus that is available to any extension module (more on that later) and there is even more: a second serial port, SPI/I²C… – a CF module is available and will be reviewed later!
Overall, the Meazura is a classic Palm OS device done well. There is nothing exotic or new here – but this is a good thing IMHO. After all, the Meazura is intended to be reliable rather than hip…although I consider it hip in its own style, too!
Tune in soon for a look at the CF card module, the battery, the buttons and the ruggedness!
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