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Originally Posted by warlock07
I wonder how much difference the RAM makes in case of a device like Kindle?
Any has a better idea on the memory hierarchy in these devices.
In the case of regular PC's it is (Hard disk) < (RAM) < (CPU) registers in terms of memory access speed.
But isn't the 4GB that we have with Kindle is flash memory? So the access speed should be equally good or shouldn't matter.
Any hardware experts lurking around?
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Flash is a lot slower than regular RAM...actually the way its implemented in the Kindle or iPod or things like that it would be slower than a typical hard drive too most likely-only gets fast when you put a bunch of it in massive parallel.
Not sure how much the RAM matters though, like how much extra you get by having more...maybe it is significant? Makes it easier to do more things with fonts? (Home much does the Nook have?) It is mostly just displaying text, but still.
Funny how the Kindle 3 has 4x the RAM on my 2007 PC!