HI. YOu are right, the more memory, the more power consumption, the shorter the battery time. remember, the unit has both ram which is waht bill is referin to, and flash rom. the amount of ram has little to do with the number of software packages you can have ont he unit, only the number you can run at the same time. the software is mostly stored whent he unit is off in either flash or on some sort of external device. phil On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:13:28PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: > This is just a guess, but my expectation is that it has to do with the > processor. I don't know what the Strongarm supports in the way of RAM. I > do understand that it will run on battery longer, and that's certainly > important in a device you carry around. Also, it runs off ROM chips so you > don't wait for it to boot, you power up and it's ready. > > 2001, Bill Gaughan wrote: > > > Why will the Elba have a memory restriction. The Mac Power Book comes with > > 128 Megs of memory? I believe the IBM Thinkpad does also. Come one, guys, > > memory is really cheap, today. I can get a 128 meg chip for $30 or less, > > mail order off the web. > > > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, > Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp > > Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther > King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at > http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp > > Learn how to make accessible software at > http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list