GarnetVM is a kludge, and a poor one at that. It's too small, too unstable, and is generally useless. I abandoned it long ago. GPE is not even close to the PIMs you get on a Palm, which can link to each other, sync very well, and are actually usable. That's what a Palm is for, and what it mostly does - it's a PIM. It does other things, but they're all addons. The PalmOS is very stable, until you start putting on poorly-behaved apps, and the browser is one. Any app can crash any OS. If you're trying to browse the web on a Tungsten C, you're wasting your time. That's not what it was designed for.

I'm currently carrying an N800 for web stuff, and a Palm Lifedrive for PIM stuff. I have a T3, and may well go back to that, but it does so well as a navigation device I just leave it in the car. A bluetooth GPS and Mapopolis, and I have everything a high-end Garmin unit offers. I may swap the two Palms, though. What I'm really starting to use far more than either, though is my Asus EeePC. It does PIMs, it does the web far better than the N800 with full Firefox, and is almost small enough to put in my pocket. Not quite, though. I do have to say that since I got it, my N800 is getting very little use.