I wont buy if the RAM is the same.

[Kadman]

No its just that everyone is sick of the crybaby trolls coming to mac rumors to whine about some of the best and fastest selling products in the electronic industry. This happens EVERY time apple releases something.

If you don't like it, don't buy it, but please don't come online and cry about it.

Everyone? Fortunately you don't speak for all of us. For every person sick of people wanting improvements, there's another person who's sick of people that defend every shortcoming. So stop claiming to be the speaker for "all."

My thoughts on this are:
Given that they put more ram in the iPhone 4 and faster CPUs in the newer phone and iPad, are there really people out there who think the changes were made without purpose? They'll be used and if the new iPad doesn't bump the ram, it would be a huge oversight.

 

[IcyStorm]

Pulse doesn't crash for me.

LOL, calling iPad sluggish shows how much experience you have with an iPad.

For a huge number of tasks, iPad with 256MB ram is more responsive than many windows laptop with 4gb of ram.

The iPad is very snappy for me. It becomes sluggish after I've opened quite a few apps. Sorry, not everyone has the exact same experience on the iPad. When I start to close some of them, it becomes better again. It's rather annoying that I have to manually do that myself when Steve said I needed no task manager.

I've used my iPad nearly every day for the past five months, so I don't know why you're insulting me like that. Have I offended you in some way?

Keynote and DocsToGo also tend to crash when I open huge PPT files for my lectures. The extra RAM could definitely help with that.

 

[fobfob]

The iPad is very snappy for me. It becomes sluggish after I've opened quite a few apps. Sorry, not everyone has the exact same experience on the iPad. When I start to close some of them, it becomes better again. It's rather annoying that I have to manually do that myself when Steve said I needed no task manager.

It's so much easier to switch apps with the home button than to fumble around in app menus to look for a Quit option. Maybe iOS/apps need to offer a "close on task switch" option (ie. act like iOS3.x)?

 

[JulianL]

Maybe iOS/apps need to offer a "close on task switch" option (ie. act like iOS3.x)?

I do think that iOS needs to do more work on the memory management because there are some strange anomalies. For instance if I launch QuickOffice immediately after running a game or something then it starts up OK but as soon as I select even a small spreadsheet it says "Not enough memory" in a popup notification. It doesn't crash, I just hit OK on the error message, immediately go back and select the same spreadsheet again, and from then on it works perfectly. This looks to me like some sort of race condition between memory allocation and memory reclaimation algorithms within iOS. Stuff like this could be handled better and probably will be in iOS 5.

- Julian

 

[maf2k8]

So pretty much what half of you are saying is that you would purchases a brand new car without knowing if it was a 4cyl, 6cyl or 8cyl?

You see all the pretty specs posted on the window..Leather seats, CD player, powered everything, Sun Roof, etc...etc....But they leave out how many cylinders it is? and when you ask the salesman, they just say, No worries! Its fast! and its great on gas! and you even test drive it..but still, you have no clue if its a V4, V6 or V8....

Really? Seriously?

I am buying one regardless and if i dont like it, i will just simply return it..but the point is, Why leave out the ram specs?

 

[WiseDuck]

Agreed. I'll only buy one if it has 512mb RAM or more. I noticed my iPad 3G couldn't keep up at times and Safari had to reload pages quite often. It was annoying and it shouldn't have to be like that.

512MB RAM, I'll buy it.
256mb RAM, I'll buy a Macbook Air 11.6" instead.

 

[Livett]

God it's like sharing a tech forum with people who don't know how to turn on a computer, but are adamant they think they do.