Lots.
With a Handheld PC running Windows CE, I still enjoy tons of computing power plus a host of leisure activities, enjoying great mobility that last 9 hours on one full charge. And it costs me only RM100 to own one such machine, with a footprint of 7 x 4 inches, weighing 1.1lbs, a qwerty touchtype keyboard and touchscreen display(minus the swish-swooshing interfaces of today's tablet PCs).
Slightly less than 5Mb is all it takes to load up Windows CE 3.0, complete with scaled-down Word processing, Excel-like spreadsheet, and other mobile functionalities.
The unit houses 32Mb ram which can be freely allocated for programs or data files. Extra applications and data can be stored onto a CF flash card. The largest capacity known to be useable on this machine is 8Gb, which is hell a lot of space, considering the footprint of Windows itself being only 5Mb.
The Windows CE default desktop is the one we have been used to prior XP, BUT here I am introducing a better lightweight desktop enhancement: --the SQ Lite.
SQ desktop, developed by Tatsuya Sakamoto, although only 200kb in size, packs a lot of punch as a desktop replacement for Windows CE. You can create up to 5 different desktop layers (where you put any of your app shortcuts) each accessible by a simple keypress: 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.
The number of app shortcuts you can put on any one desktop is plenty, limited only by the size setting (user customisable) of icon and label, the whole screen 640 by 240 pixels literally accomodates up to 64 apps if you set labels 80 by 30 pix each!!.
That being said, SQ Lite has other utilities that occupy space too.
Before I go into the other utilities, I would like to point out the greatest feature of SQ Lite: changing of wallpapers. You are allowed to have as many wallpapers as you can cramp into the SQ folder (which can be on a CF card), and while your are looking at the SQ desktop, every press of the TAB key changes the wallpaper sequentially, in alphabetical order of the filenames. COOL, isn't it? Imagine, only 200kb of processing power.
Slightly less than 5Mb is all it takes to load up Windows CE 3.0, complete with scaled-down Word processing, Excel-like spreadsheet, and other mobile functionalities.
The unit houses 32Mb ram which can be freely allocated for programs or data files. Extra applications and data can be stored onto a CF flash card. The largest capacity known to be useable on this machine is 8Gb, which is hell a lot of space, considering the footprint of Windows itself being only 5Mb.
The Windows CE default desktop is the one we have been used to prior XP, BUT here I am introducing a better lightweight desktop enhancement: --the SQ Lite.
SQ desktop, developed by Tatsuya Sakamoto, although only 200kb in size, packs a lot of punch as a desktop replacement for Windows CE. You can create up to 5 different desktop layers (where you put any of your app shortcuts) each accessible by a simple keypress: 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.
The number of app shortcuts you can put on any one desktop is plenty, limited only by the size setting (user customisable) of icon and label, the whole screen 640 by 240 pixels literally accomodates up to 64 apps if you set labels 80 by 30 pix each!!.
That being said, SQ Lite has other utilities that occupy space too.
Before I go into the other utilities, I would like to point out the greatest feature of SQ Lite: changing of wallpapers. You are allowed to have as many wallpapers as you can cramp into the SQ folder (which can be on a CF card), and while your are looking at the SQ desktop, every press of the TAB key changes the wallpaper sequentially, in alphabetical order of the filenames. COOL, isn't it? Imagine, only 200kb of processing power.
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