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When 64 does not mean 64

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There’s a controversy brewing about Viewsonic’s new V35 Pocket PC which has started shipping. Advertised as having 64MB of RAM, some users have discovered that their handhelds only have 36.45MB of RAM available, which is significantly less. Could be that the OS requires the remaining memory, and the device’s memory manager only lists memory that is available for other applications and storage. Still to lose 27.55MB to drivers and the operating system is pretty ridiculous.

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