Comments on: Quickies: 32 Mb Upgrade, Smartercase, Win-Hand

Tony Rudenko's PalmPilotUpgrade.com has announced a groundbreaking upgrade for Handspring Visor Neo and Visor Pro. They are the first in the world to upgrade both of these models to 32 Mb of RAM. They also perform upgrades and repairs to many other models. -Tony

SmarterCase is now accepting pre-orders for their new m-series case coming out in the next few weeks. It fits the m500, m505, and m125 and provides space for SD/MMC cards. Those who pre-order now get free shipping when they're ready. -Timothy Sullivan

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Address Lines

ktran @ 1/9/2002 9:47:27 AM #

Hmmm...

This shows how much I'm out of touch with things... So did the original Dragonball have 24 address lines, like its M68000 ancestor? Does the 32 meg upgrade mean that the Visor Pro and Neo processors (VZ?) have the full 32-bit addressing capability, and can basically address up to 4 gigs?

K. Tran

RE: Address Lines

I.M. Anonymous @ 1/9/2002 10:16:45 AM #

anyway, it is a good news for all the palm os users....i'll love to have one of those 32MB machine... well...is that upgrade also applicable for Prism?

RE: Address Lines

I.M. Anonymous @ 1/9/2002 10:48:19 AM #

The VZ still only has a 24-bit address bus, but it has chip select lines that enable you to address 8 X 16MB blocks of memory (according to Motorola's site).

RE: Address Lines

ktran @ 1/9/2002 11:08:01 AM #

So, the question becomes... how does the OS know how to address this memory? I keep hearing different numbers for what the Palm OS can and cannot address -- what's the definitive answer?

K. Tran

RE: Address Lines

SilliconMan @ 1/9/2002 2:26:18 PM #

Yeah, thanks for asking this question.

I was under the impression however that the EZ only supported 8MBs of RAM and the VZ 16MBs.

I will have to check the chip specs I guess.

Also, I think PalmOS can address as much RAM as the CPU can. Seems like the most reasonable asnwer to me.

Palming away.....

32MB and the m505?

I.M. Anonymous @ 1/9/2002 12:30:03 PM #

Since the m50x series is also VZ, is the 32MB upgrade coming for my m505?

16MB wasn't worth voiding the warranty over but 32MB is tempting!

-W

RE: 32MB and the m505?

Coyote67 @ 1/9/2002 5:01:23 PM #

I don't think there is enough space in the 505 body for a ram upgrade. I remember reading that a side effect of a edge upgrade is that the ram pushes against the screen and leaves a constant impression on it. Maybe thats why they don't offer it.

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When you have a Clie shoved up your mouth, you can only talk in vowels.

How about 32megs for the Sony Clie??

I.M. Anonymous @ 1/9/2002 3:15:48 PM #

If they can do 16 for Clie's and now 32 for Visor they should be able to do 32 also for the Clie but I hope they don't double the price, the upgrade price for the Clie is the highest.

RE: How about 32megs for the Sony Clie??

Lucky Bob @ 3/11/2003 10:30:55 PM #

Congrats, they just released an update for some Sony Clies, upgrading the memory to 32mb.

(Why do some people say you can kill two birds with one stone when it's hard enough killing one bird with two stones?)