Hi!
> > There are many arguments, but I don't think power consumption is
> > one of them. Whatever they use for RAM on the palm machines allows
> > the machines to run a week on 4 'aa' -size batteries. Maybe they
> > grab kinetic energy from keystrokes using flea-generators ^;).
>
> No flea-generators that I know of. :-)
>
> SDRAM, even in self-refresh mode, does draw considerable current. But then
> again so does decompressing stuff from ROM all the time.
Well.. at least decompressing from rom does not eat power when not doing
*something*.
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