Re: why NON-VOLATILE FLASH MEMORY?

It is alleged that AaronJ claimed:

; Jeffrey Kaplan <cspp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
;
; >It is alleged that AaronJ claimed:
;
; >; Your backup program probably won't run too good on a dead battery,
; >; whereas the TE2's will... ;)
; >
; >Dead battery == nothing runs.
;
; I think you got the point though. Your battery dies one hour before midnight and
; you've lost a days worth of work with your once a day automatic midnight backup.
; The TE2 with flash has lost nothing. But I agree that the backup aspect of flash

And you snipped the rest of that line where I said that I've got a
flash-based Palm, too.

; memory is not as big a deal as the advertisements would have you believe. I mean
; most people are alert enough to keep their battery charged. And the ones who
; aren't or can't will have be having enough problems in other areas of life that
; it won't matter anyway... ;)

I can see someone running it down and not being able to recharge it in
time. After nearly two years of a low-res device, which was after a
few years of Sony HiRes, I forgot how +nice+ the 320x320 display was. I
find I'm playing solitaires on my Treo when I'm bored, plus the phone
being on, and sometimes I neglect to turn off the BT. If I have an
alert set to go off early in the morning, I leave my Treo by my bedside
at night, not plugged into the charger in my home office. This
morning, it was showing about 40% charge when I got up. Yeah, "plenty
of charge, it'll last until I plug it in." But if I can get it down by
60% in one day with no more than medium usage, how much will an actual
power user cause it to drop?

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