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MacSince1990

macrumors 65816
Oct 6, 2009
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My Note 3 (3GB of RAM) and my Tab S 10.5 LTE (3GB of RAM) beg to disagree...

On both of them *I can actually multitask* (not to talk about the fact that Android has REAL multitasking and Samsung devices have MultiWindow capabilities...) and I can happily *keep open multiple tabs* in the browsers I use without the slightest problem and without the constant reloading and without losing zoom, position in the page and inputted data like on Apple devices.

1GB of RAM should be a deal breaker for anyone but very light users and gamers...

Did you not read through my post? 3 GB isn't possible for a single chip.
 

F apple FE

macrumors newbie
Dec 22, 2013
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Did you not read through my post? 3 GB isn't possible for a single chip.

You can put whatever amount of RAM on a single chip. You wrote "These things increase on a binary scale (64 MB, 128 MB, 256, 512, 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB...)" while Samsung, for example, makes 1,5GB chips (they put it in some of their midrange smartphones and tablets, i.e. the Galaxy Mega and the Tab 3 series).

BTW, Samsung's 3GB LPDDR3 module on my Note 3 and Tab S takes the same space of a single DRAM chip and would be superficially indistinguishable.
 

MacSince1990

macrumors 65816
Oct 6, 2009
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You can put whatever amount of RAM on a single chip. You wrote "These things increase on a binary scale (64 MB, 128 MB, 256, 512, 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB...)" while Samsung, for example, makes 1,5GB chips (they put it in some of their midrange smartphones and tablets, i.e. the Galaxy Mega and the Tab 3 series).

BTW, Samsung's 3GB LPDDR3 module on my Note 3 and Tab S takes the same space of a single DRAM chip and would be superficially indistinguishable.

Lies! Well, I've never heard of anyone doing it until now.

How to they accomplish this exactly? An asymmetrical chip?
 
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