And I'll bet my entire AAPL portfolio that this years iPhones have 2GB RAM. even though some clowns think it's not necessary and just encourages developers to build inefficient apps.
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Early Looks Inside Apple Watch's S1 Chip Confirm 512 MB RAM, Unexpected Suppliers
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And I'll bet my entire AAPL portfolio that this years iPhones have 2GB RAM. even though some clowns think it's not necessary and just encourages developers to build inefficient apps.
I'm always amazed when I just step back from the "magic" and look at the technical side of Apple's offerings.
In my opinion, pretty impressive for a watch!
In my opinion, pretty impressive for a watch!
Here come all of the posters to tell us that they won't buy theWatch until it has 2GB of RAM.
The watch having half the memory of their most current phone is the dumb thing to me. The watch has only a few uses, low resolution screen, etc, but gets gobs of RAM while the phones choke.
All this screams to me is the 6 should have had 2GB already.
You beat me to it while I was typing.
And I'll bet my entire AAPL portfolio that this years iPhones have 2GB RAM. even though some clowns think it's not necessary and just encourages developers to build inefficient apps.
I believe a widely supported view is that Apple erred by not upping to 2Gb for the iPhone 6; as a 6Plus user, I can tell you that having apps reloading from scratch when switching once, and often crashing in use after a while is frustrating.
The watch doesn't have a low res screen.
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This is where you have marketing and finance driving the show. Marketing needs a specific price point and finance needs a specific gross margin. There is no reasonable justification for the iPhone only having 1GB RAM.
Didn't the A5 have 512MB of RAM? That lends credence to the idea that this is a shrunken down A5. If they can move this to a 14nm process, they might be able to squeeze out more battery life, but the processor itself is smaller than I thought, so it doesn't leave much more room for a battery.
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iPhone 4S/iPad 2/iPad Mini
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iPhone 4S/iPad 2/iPad Mini
I think the idea is to load many watch apps in ram so they won't have to reload often. Im sure native 3rd party apps will have a ram usage limit.
Compared to the wide array of displays it is low res. For the size it is not, but as far as for driving it with hardware .. it's low res, which is the context I put it in.
Context context context! It is a simple device in that it has very limited usage. You're not going to be doing complex tasks on the watch, it is mean for simple tasks.
Context folks, context.
Here come all of the posters to tell us that they won't buy the
Yep. And split screen multitasking.
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I'm sure they held back on specs. They knew the redesign and big screen would sell the phone, so they sat on 2GB of RAM and a 2x faster chip, leaving those for the 6S.
anyone have wireless charging pucks? It looks like the IDT chip is a dual mode chip that supports Qi Wireless and WPC charging.
When used correctly, "b" means bit, "B" means byte. So 4Gb = four Gigabit = 4,000,000,000 bit = 500,000,000 Byte = about 500 Megabyte = 500 MB.
Unfortunately, you will often see the wrong letter used, and then you have no idea what the numbers mean.
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You often see it for the actual chips that are used. For example, a Mac with 4 GB might have eight 4Gb chips. (Actually, one SIMM with eight 4Gb chips mounted on it).
This guy is obviously wrong, as there are no cellular components visible on the PCB; no baseband modem, no radios or power amps, and so on. No antennas or even connectors for them either, not to mention the lack of a SIM card slot...
Anyway, why would there be these components in the watch if they're not going to be used? They're power hungry, expensive chips that take up significant real estate (look at an iPhone teardown for an example of how much room is needed); it wouldn't make sense to put them in there for no reason. It would just cost Apple money with no benefit for them or their customers.
Here come all of the posters to tell us that they won't buy the
Na needs to be able to run Crysis at maximum settings before it's fully acceptable.
We're quickly moving to where your phone will be the hub for everything. It'll be the only device you need, connecting wirelessly to a monitor and keyboard to act as a desktop computer.
Very exciting times!
Very exciting times!
$17k for something with 512MB RAM, in 2015?
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What I was trying to say is that if you're paying 17k for a smart watch, you would want it to have some better internals than it's more affordable counterparts (Watch/Watch Sport).
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What I was trying to say is that if you're paying 17k for a smart watch, you would want it to have some better internals than it's more affordable counterparts (Watch/Watch Sport).
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