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Apps Reportedly Limited to Maximum of 5GB RAM in iPadOS, Even With 16GB M1 iPad Pro
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What people just don’t get is apple is cleaver they know by putting 16gb in higher tiers will make people buy them when normally they wouldn’t; stop thinking wwdc will change everything as it won’t; it’s just cleaver marketing from apple, unless the iPad becomes a Mac which it isn’t will never need 16gb ram ever
Okay if ipadOS 15 opens up capabilities (which i am hoping for), it means final cut pro and other pro apps can come on ipad pro m1 models. But that also means it should be able to come on previous ipad models as they are all ARM chips. Or is it that RAM is too low on those devices? A12X and A12Z are still capable chips!
Exactly. Even if all apps could use was 5GB, then the 16GB would have 8GB more than the 8GB device available for caching.
All will be revealed soon Daniel son.
Your gonna look a right simpleton with all you posts if iPadOS 15 is big as some hope to maximise the 16GB
I’m leaning more and more towards what you’re saying here.
If the RAM and CPU options for these iPads Pro were different configurations than the rest of Apple’s latest devices and still more than double of the previous 4-6GB iPad configurations, then I’d still be more open to Apple doing more with iPadOS 15.
But Apple has really never actually done anything with the iPad that wasn’t just making it do what it already does but better.
Chip shortages are still a thing and keeping revenue up would definitely be a bit easier if you’re essentially putting the same chip in all your devices.
I bought the 16 GB version because I was sick of the re-starts of apps while switching. And it is everything I hoped for: No more re-starts! Especially for Evernote users this is a real game changer because Evernote will always go to the start page after a re-start and not to the current open note. A normal use case for me is having Evernote open and switching between several open MS Office windows (Word, PowerPoint), Safari with many tabs and possible other apps (Mail, Calendar, etc.). With the iPad Pro 2018 this was always problematic because the apps would constantly re-start. With the iPad Pro 2021: No more! I don't care about single apps using more than 5 GB.
Agree - there is 0% chance Apple gave the M1 a 16GB configuration “because the chips were lying around from M1 Macs” and they could dupe customers into paying for it. Apple is super stingy on RAM, especially in iOS/iPadOS devices. There is something on the horizon but the question is what? Upping the RAM available to apps or expanding multitasking perhaps, releasing Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro, and XCode for iPad? That would certainly justify configs up to 16GB but I am dreaming they stun us with a big announcement like Mac Apps running on the new IPP or even Big Sur dual boot. It’s unlikely but then again NO ONE predicted RAM would increase from 6GB to up to 16GB.
I don't know what the surprise is lmao. They released the new M1 iPads, but they didn't release a new iPadOS yet. So obviously that 5 GB limitation would still be in place if they didn't update it yet.
WWDC is where everything happens... Hopefully.
WWDC is where everything happens... Hopefully.
Haha This is exactly the kind of thing Steve Jobs would have done.
Add more Ram to allow more apps to remain open and refreshed in the background, but artificially limit the amount of RAM an app uses as not to completely take away from every other app.
Causes a much smoother experience for the 99.999% of people who don’t use apps that would use more than five gb of RAM at once.
In a nutshell. And WWDC is less than 2 weeks away.
5 pages .. My God... What a world we're living in..
I'm actually fine with this. Most games can still run fine at 4gb or so. 8gb would be enough to run essentially anything on the market pre-2018. This just keeps multi-tasking efficient for the other 99% of apps. I would happily order a 16gb RAM model, and not feel "cheated" if each individual app could only max out 5 or so. What I want is my MS Excel/Word links to work on iPadOS lol.
Not really.
Except for high end games, which iPad doesn’t have, apps don’t just start with 8 GB of RAM taken, it fills as you add more audio/video streams, pixels etc. So the apps can stay the same, it’s just that on 16 GB you would be able to smoothly edit let’s say 8K while only 4K or 1080p would have smooth preview on lower end devices.
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OK, while at first glance this sounds bad, in real world, end-user cases the additional RAM provides a tangible benefit.
Marques Brownlee's review show this succinctly.
Now, I can see for developer's this might be an issue, as well as for some legit pro users out there.
However, for my buck, the M1 iPad provides universe-creating bang.
Marques Brownlee's review show this succinctly.
Now, I can see for developer's this might be an issue, as well as for some legit pro users out there.
However, for my buck, the M1 iPad provides universe-creating bang.
Never gonna happen, never-ever.
“All” you’re asking them is to kill sales of all nearly all their other products.
Apple will never do the “do-it-all” laptop/tablet combo devices.
I don’t even think they’ll put their pro apps on them because that would allow those who own a Mac just for final cut or logic to ditch their desktops/laptops and go iPad only, which would kill a ton of Mac sales.
It’s not about giving us exactly what we want, it’s about giving us just enough of what we want and making the products appear exactly so attractive that we’ll agree to buy them.
They could give us everything we want all at once in a single product but then we’d just buy once device every ten years or so and only one or two products instead of several many.
If you actually can think like Jobs, I'd think your talents would be much better spent, I dunno, creating the next Apple instead of going around Internet forums telling people they're wrong.
But maybe that's just me and my limitations.
Its apple, the hardware and software work beautifully together. They could get away with 512mb ram because their integration just works. Like magic.
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