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Originally Posted by curstpriest
Kind of curious why they bothered upgrading the K3 to 256, as 128 should be more than enough for what the thing should need.
Better web browsing experience?
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Yes. Have you ever noticed that you can load a web page on a Kindle 2 but sometimes when you scroll down you have to wait an extra couple seconds while it loads (e.g. wait for page to load=> page 1=> page 2=> page 3=> page 4=> loading=> page 5=> page 6 etc)? I found out that it has to stop to load if the next page (or next section you scroll to) has an image. With Kindle 3, the entire page loads first along with every image. That way, you can view the entire page that you are on as if it were a complicated e-book in HTML. No further loading required.
Also, have you ever noticed that Kindle 2 sometimes says "Basic Web is running low on memory. Please restart your Kindle from Settings". This is because (obviously) Basic Web is taking up too much RAM and can't load much more. This almost never happens on a Kindle 3.
The doubling of memory allows Kindle 3 to do things like load an entire e-book into its RAM as soon as you you open it. When you open an e-book on a Kindle 2, only the first 7 or so pages are loaded into the device's RAM which means that every 7th or so page will take extra long to turn to.
Have you noticed that, if you listen to background music on Kindle 2 while navigating a complex (or even simple) webpage, the music often pauses or becomes choppy (or even stopes entirely)? This is not a problem for Kindle 3. This is because Kindle 3 has enough RAM to allocate a generous percentage to the audio buffers and still have plenty of it left over.
As RAM is getting cheaper, Amazon are able to put a very large amount of it into their devices.