You put all your data into, say, Palm Desktop, and then one day you lose your Palm or move to a platform that can't read your desktop files.

比方说你将一些数据输入到掌上电脑中，但是突然有一天你弄丢了你的掌上电脑或者你换到了另一个无法读取你桌面文件的平台。

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Even with current synchronization technology, it's hard to keep contacts and schedules synchronized across my Palm Pilot, desktop PC, laptop, and mobile phone.

即便是有了当前的同步技术，也很难保持我的 Palm Pilot、桌面 PC以及移动电话之间的联系和时间表的同步。

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One of the best features of devices such as the Palm Pilot and palm-size Windows CE computers is easy synchronization with desktop PCs.

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For one thing, Microsoft beat up on Palm the same way it took out many of its competitors in the desktop OS space: by putting pressure on hardware vendors to use its operating system, and offering it at a price they couldn't refuse.

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