Ram Upgrade

[TSB8C]

A company who has been doing ram upgrades to other PDAs in the past (iPaq, etc) may soon be offering an upgrade for the Axim. This is not a plug-in card. They actually install more ram in the unit itself, leaving the expansion slots still available. For example, they offer a 256 meg upgrade for certain iPaq models.

http://www.times2tech.com/

Perhaps if a lot of Axim users contacted them with interest in this, they would consider it worthy of higher priority to make it available.

[JaxDomino]

That's a lot of money just to save a slot.

[NMkiD]

Hell yeah it is.

[opulyst]

what's the benefit of writeshield over other shield protectors?

[TZimpfer]

why would someone spend $499 for RAM just to save one slot?

[shaneincottondale]

If it's a RAM upgrade, and not a ROM upgrade then it's not doing anything close to saving a slot. If it's RAM then it will only affect performance, not storage space. The question is what kind of difference and just how much RAM can the Pocket PC OS support?



shane

[jplush76]

499? good lord

they must be mental patients to charge that much.

[TSB8C]

You are all right about the cost. At that price it makes no sense. Perhaps that cost would come down if it were a more popular upgrade. I guess it's the chicken and egg thing. If more people asked for it the cost would come down. If the cost would come down more people would ask for it. Just something I stumbled across...

[Forge]

What doesn't make sense is any of us looking at this before our warranty is up! :-)

You all understand this voids it, right?

Pretty big price to pay for a "possible" performance increase.

At $499 for 256mb RAM, its pretty insane to me.

[JakeRich]

It's a RAM upgrade, and it should increase performance. How much is probably debatable, but it will increase performance. The reason is that RAM is accessed faster than either CF or SD storage, so with more RAM you can keep more programs and data in the faster storage and thereby increase performance. And it does free up the CF or SD slot to use for other things if you wanted to do that.

[chuckecheese]

maybe its just me? but i think i can wait that extra millisecond and spend that 499.00 on plus a bit more for 1gig microdrive.
please let me know.

256mg(499.00) vs 1gig+millsecs- 1 less slot.

its an option but not for me. thx none-the-less for info.

[AR15]

At that price this upgrade is probably designed more for corporate/industrial users than individual users.

My 400 Mz Axim is slow loading my 700 contacts and slow loading some apps. Maybe more ram would help speed it up. But, imagine a business using a pda for inventory etc where thousands of items might reside in the memory for bar coding - the extra ram might help out there.

[Forge]

Originally posted by AR15@Jan 14 2003, 09:14 PM
At that price this upgrade is probably designed more for corporate/industrial users than individual users.

My 400 Mz Axim is slow loading my 700 contacts and slow loading some apps. Maybe more ram would help speed it up. But, imagine a business using a pda for inventory etc where thousands of items might reside in the memory for bar coding - the extra ram might help out there.

At that point, they'd be better off runing some type of small tablet computer or wearable like the Xybernaut - something closer to a desktop.

I love my Axim but you have to recognize its limitations...

$499? Almost the price of two Axim!!

[bigempty]

i've already emailed these guys last week, but still no reply.

having a free slot from a memory upgrade will also save battery life as well as loading times. but you'll definitely see a performance gain.