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Alleged Schematic Shows iPhone 6 Coming with 1GB of RAM [Updated]
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Why is this irrelevant?
Irrelevant because it's only a rumour or irrelevant because you still think 1GB is enough?
what do you mean price increase? do we know how much they are going to cost already?
Do you think the constant Safari crashes as soon as you have too many tabs open also qualifies as "smooth like always has been"?
Optimization is crucial, but sometimes a bit more of muscle is also welcome.
What many who have only used Apple devices or (rarely) used Android devices keep failing to understand or acknowledge is that the update path is very different (or has been).
Android doesn't need full OS updates to achieve additional/better functionality because all of the core apps are constantly updated many times a year. And now that Google has play services tightly integrated - many OS features don't even need to go through OEMs or carriers.
It's a different model.
That being said - I'm just not one of those people who buys a device for what it might be able to do in the future - but rather what it can do for me today. So I've never been hung up on whether or not I get the new OS - but rather that the devices I am using gets the necc bug fixes (if there are issues.)
No, the size and number of registers is a trivial effect. Even if you had 512 64-bit registers, that's only 1024 words (or 4096 bytes) which is a drop in the bucket when you have 1GB of RAM.
The issue with moving to 64 bit is that apps that aren't optimized and use 64-bit variables to store quantities that never exceed 32-bits will be wasting a lot of space that's always filled with needless 0's. Also, pointer variables now take 64 instead of 32 bits, and hence take twice the space - certain types of apps make heavy use of pointer variable and could conceivably almost double in memory usage.
Well optinized code, however, should usually see something like a 5-10% increase in size compared to the same code on a 32-bit processor.
Just because grandmas don't know what 1GB means doesn't mean they don't suffer from low memory. Actually, it sounds very mean to say that they can suffer if they don't know what's going on. Also, the same grandma care about 0.2mm thinner phone?
I believe what's scarier is that you think your case is the same as everyone else's. I agree with you that I'd be annoyed as hell if my tabs kept reloading because I often open a ton of tabs. But that doesn't mean everyone does, or everyone cares, or if everyone even notices.
I think apple should improve their surfing experience, whether adding more RAM or not will help I don't know. But, that's just me. I wouldn't call someone a fanboy just because they don't agree with me.
Multitasking fail
Very true unfortunately! If I want to set up a new password on a site and enter that info in 1Password I cannot do it on one device due to the re-loading issue. I have to do it with the iPhone and the iPad side by side. Switching between Safari and 1Password will inevitably force one of those apps to re-load, losing the fresh data in the process.
If that doesn't change with new devices this fall I see no point in upgrading. Whether the issue is RAM I don't know, but the lack of real multitasking due to re-loading issues is the clearest sign that the iPad so far is no replacement for a laptop/desktop computer.
Very true unfortunately! If I want to set up a new password on a site and enter that info in 1Password I cannot do it on one device due to the re-loading issue. I have to do it with the iPhone and the iPad side by side. Switching between Safari and 1Password will inevitably force one of those apps to re-load, losing the fresh data in the process.
If that doesn't change with new devices this fall I see no point in upgrading. Whether the issue is RAM I don't know, but the lack of real multitasking due to re-loading issues is the clearest sign that the iPad so far is no replacement for a laptop/desktop computer.
I think we'd probably be better off asking a developer, lol. While OS X might have VM (ofc it does), iPhones come with in some cases only 8 GB of storage, and many people use them to where there's almost nothing free. I think there's a good chance they have VM disabled or even taken out. 'Course I'm just guessing.
It's only been a few years since compurers have moved on from more memory. The Safari crashing bug is not a RAM issue, it's a software bug. The iPhone doesn't need so much memory, people need to relax about this. Just because other phones have more memory it doesn't mean an iPhone needs it.
For the simplest "just works" kind of phone, people shouldn't have to "just learn" how to work around apple skimping out on much needed ram in 2014. Don't make excuses for apple.
"App closing" is a myth. When the system needs the memory it "closes" those apps for you anyway. Unless a background app has actual work to do (e.g, background audio) it uses no processor resources and its memory footprint is essentially available for use by the foreground app or iOS itself as-needed.
No device "just works" - that's a misnomer. Every device has a learning curve.
Now let's talk in practical terms.
Android web and multitask experience is better than iOS experience because of the amount of RAM.
Running more apps and more web tabs at the same time on Android is more stable than on iOS. Just read this topic. Are you sure you're the only one here who knows how x64 instructions work?
People don't give a s*** to that, they just want to open more things without seeing them crash or close because of insufficient RAM.
Yep. Also those resistors and various pin names make me think this is external to the cpu package. But let the chickens run around with their heads cut off. It's fun to watch.
Irrelevant because as long as the dilithium crystal is sufficient to power the reality distortion field the amount of RAM does not matter.
You don't think they will be a price increase?
There will be. Bigger screen, 4.7-inch, not the 5.5-inch as that doesn't exist, bigger battery, better camera's, improved Touch ID sensor and MAYBE sapphire glass.
More phone = more money. It's simple.
Oh, the price will go up alright.
So you make decisions based on unconfirmed rumors? Seems to me you weren't really set on an iPhone then anyway.
Come on dude! Apple's revenue for 2014 is expected to come in at $181.66 billion. Without your $700 how are they gonna please their shareholders?
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Excuse me, but... ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!
The Jurassic PC circa 2002 (running Windows XP) I have down at my weekend beach hut can run 10+ tabs without a problem. Don't you reckon a 2014 iPad should too?