It's not just that. Your android phone has a lot of ram and a much faster cpu than the xo 1.0. And its java runtime is engineered especially for low memory usage. The xo 1.5 is much better. And python and sugar will get better. <blockquote type="cite">On 7 Nov 2010 21:08, "Tabitha Roder" <<a href="mailto:tabitha@tabitha.net.nz">tabitha@tabitha.net.nz</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote">> Re memory usage - we already go through the "please don't open too many activities" routine all t... <div> How come my Android phone is okay with running everything at once? What does it do that means I don't run out of memory? Can we do that to Sugar? Apparently the phone is killing apps when it needs to but when you restart the application it picks up where it left off (I might be repeating something already discussed on this list?). Back in the old days, Sugar showed you how many activities were running in the home view, that might have been more obvious to kids that they were overloading their laptops. Would it be possible to have a message pop up that says "you are running out of memory, which activity would you like to close" or similar so they are alerted to running too much stuff. Thanks Tabitha </div></div> _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </blockquote>