Friday, April 23, 2004
Rebates for Mac Users Moving From Palm to Pocket PC
Posted by marlof in "NEWS" @ 08:00 AM
The people at PocketMac wrote in with an offer that might be of great interest to Mac users.
"We've just set up PalmUptrade.com--it's our initiative with Hewlett Packard for existing Mac-based Palm users to trade in their Palms for significant rebates on Hewlett Packard's iPAQs & our own PocketMac Pro software. Our initiative comes on the heels of news of Palm deciding to discontinue Macintosh support in future versions of their operating system. We will also be giving Palm users a free tool, PocketMac Palm Importer, to move over their existing Palm Desktop data to Entourage, iCal or OS X Address Book. In total, Palm users will get a minimum rebate of $50 from HP (more for newer Palms) and an instant rebate of $43 from PocketMac."
If you're a Mac user PalmSource in future will have you in the same boat as Microsoft, offering no native Mac support but leaving that to third party developers. One of those third party options for the Pocket PC is PocketMac Pro. If you want to read more on this, you might want to read our review. Synchronization shouldn't stop you, so if you're wondering about a next PDA to purchase, you might as well broaden your short list and include Pocket PCs. After all, there's nothing wrong with getting a discount like this, now is there?
"We've just set up PalmUptrade.com--it's our initiative with Hewlett Packard for existing Mac-based Palm users to trade in their Palms for significant rebates on Hewlett Packard's iPAQs & our own PocketMac Pro software. Our initiative comes on the heels of news of Palm deciding to discontinue Macintosh support in future versions of their operating system. We will also be giving Palm users a free tool, PocketMac Palm Importer, to move over their existing Palm Desktop data to Entourage, iCal or OS X Address Book. In total, Palm users will get a minimum rebate of $50 from HP (more for newer Palms) and an instant rebate of $43 from PocketMac."
If you're a Mac user PalmSource in future will have you in the same boat as Microsoft, offering no native Mac support but leaving that to third party developers. One of those third party options for the Pocket PC is PocketMac Pro. If you want to read more on this, you might want to read our review. Synchronization shouldn't stop you, so if you're wondering about a next PDA to purchase, you might as well broaden your short list and include Pocket PCs. After all, there's nothing wrong with getting a discount like this, now is there?
