07-15-2007, 01:00 AM
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Question for the tech gurus about RAM. :)
Why is it that PPC's like the Mogul severely lack in the amount of RAM, but the ROM is an acceptable size? I'd take 100MB of ROM if I could have 128MB of RAM.
 Is there some sort of benefit to the developer, or are they limited or something? I'm really curious.
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07-15-2007, 01:47 AM
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The more RAM you have to keep powered, the more power required, thus the more battery you eat even while the device is suspended.
RAM is also more expensive than flash memory on a per megabyte basis, so there is probably some cost issues as well.
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07-15-2007, 01:53 AM
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i would take a small battery life cut for a little more ram. even it it was 64mn AFTER the os id be happy. if i could turn on my 6800 and have 64mb free id be set lol.
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07-15-2007, 08:26 AM
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If our battery life was less we would be b***hing, you know I am right, what pisses me off is we are powering 49 megs of RAM but the OS is using 25 megs at start up. There has to be a better way
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07-15-2007, 12:37 PM
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Oh. Thanks. I had to know why, because it seems like the addition of 32 or 64MB of ram on an already costly device (~$600 MSRP) wouldn't be much of a hit to HTC. But now I understand about the power issue.
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07-15-2007, 01:08 PM
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The amount of RAM on the 6800 is not really as much of an issue compared to how efficienty its used. The Treo 700wx, for example, has the same amount of physical RAM, but it leaves you with about 40mb unused after a reboot while the 6800 has much less.
Palm, despite their own issues, did a great job with the 700wx's memory usage. WM6 does take up more RAM, but nowhere near that much. If HTC was as efficient in the memory usage as Palm was then we wouldn't be having this discussion.
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07-15-2007, 01:45 PM
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the os uses less than 17mb, that dont explain where the extra 20+mb is going. we should have at least 30-35mb free on reboot
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07-16-2007, 09:42 AM
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Yeah more RAM would be nice. I don't see why it uses so much RAM without anything running besides the OS and a few programs.
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