The Efika Appreciation & Research Foundation

[zylesea]

I wish it had at least one DIMM slot.  I mean, $99 for one of these things that run Amiga apps several times faster than any Amiga ever made including a $700 CSPPC

Don't underestimate the 128 MB. A lot of  stuff easiy useable. The most important app that is easily consuming all the 128 MB is OWB. But you can use it with 1-3 tabs, just watch the RAM usage and quit before you get out of RAM. Also there is Sputnik, which shares a bit of Efika's fate. Good approach, but literally eaten by the successor (Sputnik - OWB , Efika -  Mac mini).
Most other apps are really fine with 128 MB.
It is a tiny fun computer, pretty nice for tinkering around and surprisingly useable for many things.

[zylesea]

I have to ask, my Miniming v1.1 got a RAM upgrade by soldering RAM chips onto the existing chips and then a big more buggering around with some wires.  Is "anything" similar possible with the Efika?

Adding some mem on the solder pads doesn't work OOTB. The OF doesn't config it correctly. *Maybe* there is a chance we'll get an optional firmware that will configure 256 MB. But I wouldn't count on that (depends on how busy or bored the bplan guys are).

How about the Amiga trick of nicking RAM from a graphics card and allocating that as extra "SLOW" RAM?  OK, performance might take a hit when it is used, but anything that increases the rather sad 128MB might prove useful.

Might work in theory, but copying RAM to VRAM is rather slow. The MorphOS-Team seemed to not like that idea too much (was suggested many times already). With 2.5 the amount of free RAM increased a bit, since gfx data can be stored at VRAM exclusively now.