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Old 02-15-2009, 07:31 PM   #110
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Originally Posted by Ervserver View Post
Memory being so inexpensive they could have easily loaded the Kindle II with 4 GB or more....I have a feeling they found a point where the Kindle software had issues with too much memory. Afterall they market the Kindle as multimedia, added stereo speakers to it, but in the end it is very limited as to what you can store on it, sure the 1500 book number sounds like a lot but start adding newspapers, magazine, music, audio books, etc 1.4 GB is ate up in no time.
That is somewhat true. The Kindle had trouble handling the contents of one of the Blackmask 10k ebook DVDs. It crashed after listing around 6k files. That might explain 2GB instead of 4GB.
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