Yea, and 95% of that frantic outcry is from people that do not like Apple to begin with, most of whom are paid to be on here trashing Apple any chance they get.
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Alleged Schematic Shows iPhone 6 Coming with 1GB of RAM [Updated]
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Yea, and 95% of that frantic outcry is from people that do not like Apple to begin with, most of whom are paid to be on here trashing Apple any chance they get.
The DRAM is in the same package as the CPU in the A-series chips. I'm not sure how they mount the two chips within the package - i.e. whether it's MCM or PoP. If it's PoP, then yes, the DRAM could be BGA which would negate that one of my points. But the other points still hold. Most importantly, the pin names refer to pins found on NAND flash, not on DRAM.
The 1GB refers to NAND storage in this schematic. It does not refer to DRAM. The premise of this rumor is wrong.
Irrevevant in most circumstances, sure...
Ever hear of the Mobile Safari reloading tab issue? Quite anoying. Sometimes more RAM is welcome.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1672010/
Your employers should check the quality of your work. Since they are paying to you spin, it should at least be somewhat believable. I mean, that's just nonsense.
edit: deeply sorry. it's early for me. my sarcasm meter was turned off.
This is reasonable, but why wouldn't they just use a part of the system RAM for caching the NAND storage requests at operating system level?
Really? As many as he wants. Will you also have an issue if he chooses Pepsi over Coke, too?
If tabbed browsing is supported by the OS, then Apple should strive to make the overall user experience as hassle-free as possible without compromise.
Absolutely.
If this rumored 1 GB of RAM is true, Samsung will use it against Apple in all their 2015 ad campaigns. And it just might be effective.
Because Samsung users care more about a number on a spec sheet than the actual user experience
Couldn't agree more. How can Apple progress the iOS user experience with limiting their devices to just 1 GB of RAM? The lack of RAM has to be holding back the potential for a much better user experience. Apple's just milking it these days. Hope this rumor is false. Something's gotta give.
I think the facts speak for themselves when the majority of knowledgable iPhone users tend to agree that 1 GB of RAM is sometimes causing problems with iOS7. Don't be such a luddite, I'm sure you use your iPhone for more than just calls??
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Drinking the Apple kool-aid much?
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"And some other app needed the RAM, so the OS sent a signal to all still-resident apps to reduce memory."
Riiiiight... Which brings us back to why the iPhone 6 needs more than 1 GB of RAM.
You people need to stop using the term Fanboy. Its derogatory. And every meaning you intend by it applies to you all as well, just to the opposite extreme. In fact its worse for you. Because you enjoy spending your time on a website devoted to discussing products you hate. How sad is that.
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Thats what all the people that love to throw around the terms like fanboy and sheep do. They never stop to see what they are.
I'm constantly posting where apple needs to improve. Stop getting so defensive because someone doesn't agree with you all the time.
Drinking the Samsung kool aid much?
Meanwhile, the upcoming 5.7" Note 4 is rumored to ship with 4GB RAM (up from 3GB)
That is just ridiculous you can not try to sell a smartphone just making it bigger and bigger.
I use a Nexus 5 now, it has 2GB of ram, the only problem is the OS, if it's optimized you should not need so much ram, let's be honest, I can use my laptop perfectly with just 4GB and for many demanding things, in a phone, is just a waste and marketing...
Why? because Apple made the device means its perfect no questions asked?
As a user i know when the device is trying hard to manage memory. Tabs reloading or disappearing altogether, apps slow relaunch and stuttering aren't marks of an OS that has enough memory to play with.
But hey ho, Apple made the device so they're automatically right.
You know, no amount of RAM is ever going to be enough. The more RAM a device a has, the more programmers write their programs to use. If a company is in a rush to just throw a ton of RAM in there, for mere omg spec reasons, noone has a need to write code efficiently. While adding more RAM over time is good and beneficial... i really doubt most of you people that are so quick to bash people ever stop to think what the pros and cons of anything are. Just pure 100% knee jerk reaction.
Ah. And I agreed with everything else you said =P
The 1GB refers to NAND storage in this schematic. It does not refer to DRAM. The premise of this rumor is wrong.[/QUOTE]
Rofl oh, it does? Then you're right, the rumor is meaningless, and whomever posted this is a bit of an idiot. I didn't even look closely enough. On the other hand.. didn't it mention something about DDR? Never heard of DDR NAND... does NAND even have a clock cycle? If not, that would make "DDR" NAND a bit... impossible.
(Totally clueless about storage.)
Why? My iPhone has a screen resolution close to my MacBook and a very powerful CPU. On iPad it's even more important. I'd already use it more for productivity if it had more ram to keep things loaded.
I'm saying that will be Apple's claim of the iPhone 6. "Twice as fast as the 5s" while not revealing the gut specs.
Puny half gig?
Umm... I still seem to remember when then top-of-the-line titanium PowerBook G4 came with half gig standard, with the option to upgrade to full gigabyte. Sure it was 12 years ago but it was a full blown laptop for God's sake! Same thing had 60GB hard drive by default and now 64GB flash storage is nothing..?
Surely a phone could survive, if you just didn't have to load p0rn on all Safari tabs
Um… By your analogy, we would all still be living in the stone age with no progression towards technological advancements. Simply stated, more RAM = better progression of the OS and overall user experience heading into the future. You want to keep living in the past, you're going to get run over.
Hopefully it's GB, but I haven't really had issues with tabs reloading on iPhone. More so on iPad..