The Pocket PC operating system is also designed to handle much larger memory allocations than the Palm. What this means to you is that you can work with larger files and more sophisticated programs that take more memory.
Early versions of the iPAQ came with 16MB or 32MB of RAM, but all of the models shipped since 2002 (3670 and 37xx, 38xx, 39xx, 54xx, 19xx series) come with 64MB of RAM standard, and many can be upgraded (by a third party) to up to 256MB of RAM. In comparison, the most powerful Palm devices come with 16MB of RAM.
The same comment can be made in the area of memory efficiency as was made about the processor. The Palm makes very effective use of its memory as far as applications go, whereas the Pocket PC and Pocket PC applications are often larger. However, when it comes to raw data (photos, music, documents), the memory usage is essentially the same.

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