Yeah you're right...None of the orginal iPads work now
Yeah you're right...None of the orginal iPads work now
I am unable to listen to a discussion on YouTube while looking at any tabbed pages with too many pictures without the video cutting out. The web page then needs to reload, losing all progress in the video. 512 mb ram just doesn't cut it for me at all. Apple has lost $45 billion in market cap recently, so I know I am not the only one seeing through the hype associated with the name brand and actually comparing the hardware and software to the competition's offerings. It is still a nice device if you can overlook some of its worst features like the cheap screen which reflects the slightest light with a glare, or the very low amount of ram and CPU power.
I am unable to listen to a discussion on YouTube while looking at any tabbed pages with too many pictures without the video cutting out. The web page then needs to reload, losing all progress in the video. 512 mb ram just doesn't cut it for me at all. Apple has lost $45 billion in market cap recently, so I know I am not the only one seeing through the hype associated with the name brand and actually comparing the hardware and software to the competition's offerings. It is still a nice device if you can overlook some of its worst features like the cheap screen which reflects the slightest light with a glare, or the very low amount of ram and CPU power.
Sure they work.. Poorly at that. As time goes on, and websites become content rich, the ram becomes a major issue.
The saving grace with apples rather skinny specs is they don't need as much to run as the android equal.
True. My mom's iPad 1 really crawls with iOS 5.2.1. iOS was not made available for it.
I don't think iOS 5.2.1 was made available to anyone
For a 2 year period the RAM on the iPad 1 was more than enough,obviously as time goes by devices are going to slow down and their specs will become an issue.
No it wasn't, iPad had low ram from the get go. People put up with it because there was nothing else available. When the 2 came along, you had something to contrast with and could see the limitation right away on the iPad 1. The device is no faster or slower then the day you bought it, only faster and more capable devices emphasizes the predecessors limits.
Also remember the 512meg on the mini is for the entire device, not 512mb for safari but the entire OS, including the GPU. User available memory is more like 320mb after system boot up. The only reason apple increased the ram in iPad retina is the frame buffer is much larger so 512 would not suffice.
The iPad 3/4 has about 640mb or so available to for apps etc.
Yup. I haven't thought about how much RAM my iPad mini has in all the months I've been using it. It works great so I don't question it.
It's actually quite annoying when you're filling out a form or some other text entry and you have to open a new tab and coming back to the old one and finding it have to reload, therefore losing everything. You'll stop laughing then.
If I was filling out a form I wouldn't be opening new tabs until I had completed the form first. Or if it was that important I would use my MacBook instead.
So you see how Apple screws the consumer, by using inadequate and old parts, but yet you will still be buying another Apple product. They pulled the same crap with my iPad 1, by only putting in 256MB RAM, that causes my IPad to crash every 10-15 minutes under iOS5. Because of that, I replaced my iPod Touch with an HTC Phone, my iPad with a Nexus 7, and my Mac Mini with a custom Linux box. I will never buy Apple again...This is an interesting topic and you raise a great question...in fact Im happy with my iPad minis screen and A5 but the anemic RAM will be my reason to upgrade to next mini...Ive had a few app crashes, slow app loads and safari refreshes but its not a major problem...YET.
In my opinion the bare minimum 512 RAM is the weakest link of the ipad mini...
Yeah you're right...None of the orginal iPads work now
I don't think iOS 5.2.1 was made available to anyone
For a 2 year period the RAM on the iPad 1 was more than enough,obviously as time goes by devices are going to slow down and their specs will become an issue.
...For a 2 year period the RAM on the iPad 1 was more than enough,obviously as time goes by devices are going to slow down and their specs will become an issue.
Read any review of the iPad 2 and it's obvious that the iPad 1's RAM was more than enough until the iPad 2 came out.
Go check the reviews then,was the iPad 2 better? Of course but lots of reviews didn't recommend upgrading to the 2 if you already had the 1(although after iOS5 launched i'm sure the performance went downhill). Thats like saying the 512MB of the 4/4S were enough until the 1GB's of the 5 came out,i think thats obvious.
Actually. Most of the reviews said that the 2 was good enough to warrant upgrading form the 1. Especially when the topic of tabs reloading and checkerboarding came into question.
No it's not a real problem but I can't understand how could they put such a low ram on a 300+ device !!!!Is a tab reloading really a problem, for all the second it takes? This makes me laugh. Is time really so precious that a quick page refresh is a problem?
OP the ram is not something you will ever think about when using the mini. It's very fast. Forget the ram man!
That's what people said when the iPad 1 came out, it works fine.. Sure look at it now.
Absolutely not.Does'nt the RAM is a problem while running many tabs on one time using the iPad mini? Is there any stutter occurred?