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Does your Palm Pre slow down, get sluggish and make you want to throw it against the wall? Yeah you and me both brother…or sister. Well as it turns out there is a reason for it, which is a candidate for overstatement of the year. From the open mouths of Ben Galbraith and Dion Almae: “the path to the GPU didn’t exist.” So WebOS which needs the web to run gets bogged down by the world wide web. The Palm team says that this will be addressed in the “immediate future.” They are looking to use CSS transforms to modify the visual elements. So does this mean we’ll have what amounts to a $179 stylesheet in our pockets? No, but it does mean that the days of sudden complete lane change will be a thing of the past very soon, or at least that’s the hope.

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