I just ordered a N800 from Buy.com during their Thanksgiving promotion ($190 USD). I also ordered a iGo Stowaway keyboard from Amazon.com ($30 USD). I'm looking forward to reciving it; I've wanted one of these since the 770 was introduced.

Now I need to select some memory.

I've read the Patriot Class 6 16GB module works with the N800 but I think 8GB is probably enough for me. Any reason I should get 16GB rather than 8GB? Video storage, map caching, web caching?

Is Patriot memory a good choice? Does 16GB really work in the N800? Should I consider anything else?

Does 16GB draw more power and substantially drain the battery, or make the N800 slow?

I would also like to know if the 16GB sdhc works good on the n800 since im planning on booting from the sd card so i install everything i want and have plenty of space + another slot :P

I found the reference to it working here:

http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/8...now-available/

And here:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...highlight=16GB

There's lots of hearsay.

Guess I'm wondering how well it works. Does it drain the battery? Or make the software slow?

Haven't heard anything about battery drain. As for speed, one of the first posts about the Patriot 16GB card was one where the poster wondered how come his N800 was so much faster now than it used to be.. apparantly accessing files on the card was much faster than with his previous low-capacity SD card. Hearsay? Yep. Scary hearsay? No..

I'd be wary with 16GB cards yet, as even 8GB are somewhat experimental. The whole SDHC thing is extremely new, and still has to stabilize at every front - the only recently fixed SD corruption issues on the OS2007 were rare and mild considered to the issues with SDHC in XP and PC hardware...

Early adopters should consider themselves unpaid beta testers at their own risk - quite a few cards will be shortlived due to design or production defects, and even more will be killed by incompatible hard- and software. If you buy the very latest and most expensive card, you'd better have the time to haggle for a refund or repair, and have no data to lose.

Sevo

Well, the new 16GB cards are much cheaper (at least at Newegg) than the 1GB cards used to be just a few years back, not to mention when they were brand new. Unless I start hearing some horror stories real soon I'll go buying.

N800 from Buy.com (ordered late Saturday afternoon) arrived today (Monday).


Patriot 8GB card arrives from NewEgg.com tomorrow ($54 including tax and shipping after PayPal sponsored 20% off sale).

I'll let you know how it works out with the 8GB card.

I know a bit late but I haven't found too many people using 16 GB cards in their n800's so I thought I'd post.

I currently have not one but two 16 GB cards in my n800 and I've had no stability problems whatsoever. I'm running OS2008 Version 2.2007.50-2.

One card is a 16 GB SDHC Patriot card and the other is an Adata 16 GB SDHC card. DiskUsage says I have 16 GB on the Patriot card and 15.7 on the A-Data.

Grant

Only available 16GB card over here is a class 6 transcend one... very tempting to go with it, seeing noone have had any problems with 16GBs (though of other brands)