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Originally Posted by TMB_XV6700
Only because nobody's pointed it out already, RAM (besides being fast) consumes power all the time whether it's in use or not, and that affects battery life. The Windows Mobile Team blogged that they believed (at the time, for WM5 anyway) that 64MB was the optimum RAM/battery life tradeoff point for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately I can't find that link, but here's another one that addresses the crux of the OP:
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/...14/438991.aspx |
Yeah, but, again pointing at the ipod touch (and cursing softly)
battery - 800mah (yep, HALF)
cpu 400mz
screen 480x320 (yep, 2x)
ram 128mb (2x)
store 8gb (don't even get me started)
wifi, 802.11g
run time ON WIFI -> 5+ hours (vs for my 6700, er, 2.5 hours with a good tail wind)
I think the tiny, microscopic, nearly unmeasurable 1-2mah drain of another 64mb of ram is NOT the issue, nor could it POSSIBLY be the extra $2 in the bill of materials cost for the OEMs.
Honestly, I do not know what the problem is over at redmond.
Oh wait...
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I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time... I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.
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- Bill Gates
Apparently the WinMobile team needs to read some more
