hx4700 128MB RAM upgrade
November 22, 2005 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under PDA, Services
I used to do some work with the girls from The Gadgeteer. After being guest columnists in a magazine I helped produce the girls have gone even stronger in gadget reviews.
They recently reviewed the memory upgrade option for the iPAQ hx4700 upping the internal SDRAM to 128MB which is actually just “enough” to run a few Windows Mobile applications all at the same time. Of course, there’s only one mainstream company that does this – Pocket PC Techs; upgrading memory since the megabyte was introduced. No, really, these guys are the saviors when it comes to disgruntled PDA owners that need more space to store porn important documents and applications.
“Be aware that no matter where a program is stored, it will be moved to RAM when it is time for it to actually run. That is where the SDRAM comes into play. The 64MB SDRAM is basically split in half. While one-half is available for loading programs, the other half is necessary for running the programs. Therefore, the fewer programs you can actually load in main memory, the faster the PDA will run and the more program-running memory will be available. Since there is only 64MB to begin with, it seems as if without even trying the memory will just dwindle. This makes me think that 128MB SDRAM would have been a wiser use of extra memory, rather than such a large File Store…”
Check it out here.
