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Why is the main memory listed as 55 MB when the device has 64 MB physical memory?

April 26, 2017device main MB memory physical

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Why is the main memory listed as 55 MB when the device has 64 MB physical memory?

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Due to the type of nonvolatile memory featured in iPAQ Pocket PC h4100 and h4300 series, a portion of the system RAM is required by the operating system. In this case 9 MB of RAM is reserved for the operating system. The benefit is faster write performance.