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Does no-one use the My Documents synchronised folder? Mine is 19.6 Mb big. If I only had 64Mb ram I would be pushing things as soon as I run tom-tom.
Also as you said, losing power will "still put you in a world of hurt". Imagine a less experienced used, forced to install all his apps into ROM due to the small ram, now under the impression that he is safe from power loss, suddenly discovering his my documents folder has been wiped, all his customisations and short cuts has been vamped, today screen plug-ins gone, and now he has to delete his rom programs to re-install cleanly again (to restore his short cuts and registry settings)
Remember, most of these programs installed in ROM defaults to storing their data in RAM!
The only difference between installing in ROM and RAM is the size of the back-up file. You still have to back up, and you still have to restore. ROM is slower than ram, and your programs will start up slower.
They may have included a lot of ROM, but have not educated the user as to the implications, or implemented methods so it made more sense. Sure you can do some tweaks yourself, like move your IE cache or avantgo (and make your machine less stable), but should Dell not have changed the OS so you dont have to be an expert to ameliorate the disadvantages from Dell's setup.
Until the OS is properly rethought (how does ms-smartphone use ram?) adding gobs of rom does not add much at all. I'd rather have 128Mb ram thank you.
Thats why Ive ordered my Loox 720...
Surur
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