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Originally Posted by signothefish
...in the overall scheme of things, memory represents only a fraction of all the parasites on your Pocket PC. The screen, backlight, WiFi, wireless communications, and microdrive are all very thirsty, which explains why I have to have the extended battery on my e800. That's why doubling, tripling, whatever the amount of memory on my device doesn't really bother me as much as it would others, because to me it's just a drop in the bucket.
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This is correct if you think only of when the device is turned on, but remember that the power hit for RAM is constant whether on or suspended. So I would offer that over the lifetime of the device, the RAM refresh hit is actually much higher.
Also, of all aspects of mobile computing, power/battery is the one that is progressing the least quickly. This isn't due to lack of effort, because the rewards are great, it is just a matter of physics and engineering.
I think it is kind of funny that some of the responses seem to actually be defending the idea that a Pocket PC should lose everything if the battery fails. Personally, I've always found that inexcusable and I'll be glad to see that gone! ;-)