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iPad 2 to Match iPhone 4's 512 MB of RAM?

RBR2 said:
Bad analogy. The number one car driven by Formula One drivers who actually purchased it with their own money (in other words not the sponsor's car) is a Porsche Boxter. I know I would choose a Boxter over an Elise every day of the week.
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You must not know how much F1 drivers make if you think they gonna pick up one of those cheap things :rolleyes: I would never choose the boxter, I love porsche but the boxter is just a poor mans attempt at owning a porsche. If you gonna say you getting the car for the driving experience it provides then than the Lotus still wins in that poorman's price range. :rolleyes:
 
firewood said:
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So how many mW do you think you could draw and still last 720 hours?
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Thar's not the point. Bottom line is "add extra 256MB" won't kill much standby time of iPAD. Your assumption is far from correct.

Apple did this, put just enough DRAM in iPAD or iPhone, for purpose. Make sure your iDEVICE will struggle when next OS update comes. It's very annoyed and give very inconsist user experience. That's why people want more DRAM in iDEVICE.
 
Eolian said:
Shoulda bought an Apple :D
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The Airport is one of the worst products as far as manageability goes. Completely unflexible. Why can't I run NAT on it without running DHCP ? I have a perfectly fine DHCP server configured using ISC DHCPD that serves up very specific configurations and does DDNS for me, I don't need Apple's half-baked unconfigurable DHCP server. Yet I need NAT...

So my AEBS is just a glorified access point and I got another router to serve as a NAT. Hey, at least that way I also get a 2nd wireless network for my G devices so my N devices don't get slowed down. I guess it's not all bad.
 
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Why would someone want a week or two less battery life for some unknown future OS needs?
 
firewood said:
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Why would someone want a week or two less battery life for some unknown future OS needs?
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You should face the truth, add another 256MB won't reduce " a week or two less battery life".
 
twcbc said:
You should face the truth, add another 256MB won't reduce " a week or two less battery life".
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Now I suspect one reason why all the other manufactures of tablet wannabe's are failing. They may not be employing engineers who can't even get the units correct when calculating battery life. (BTW, a week is a pinch less than 170 hours, in case someone is still having trouble with this...)
 
No one knows how much ram the iPad 2 has let alone how well it runs on the ram it has, so these arguments of it needs another "256" mb of ram are pointless.
 
KnightWRX said:
The Airport is one of the worst products as far as manageability goes. Completely unflexible. Why can't I run NAT on it without running DHCP ? I have a perfectly fine DHCP server configured using ISC DHCPD that serves up very specific configurations and does DDNS for me, I don't need Apple's half-baked unconfigurable DHCP server. Yet I need NAT...

So my AEBS is just a glorified access point and I got another router to serve as a NAT. Hey, at least that way I also get a 2nd wireless network for my G devices so my N devices don't get slowed down. I guess it's not all bad.
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And it's more expensive than any competitor, and it doesn't have a built in switch, making it even more expensive.

I do have an Airport Express, that works great for its intended uses. (although still expensive)

I didn't have any time this weekend to "play" with the router. So I just added screensaver + security back onto the computer in question for now.
 
I agree with quizdogg...
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Sounds like the A5 chip is actually a dual-core cortex A8, not cortex A9.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2...costs-remain-largely-unchanged-for-ipad-2.ars

If that's true, I became a lot less interested in the iPhone 5.

edit: Several commenters have pointed out that the java benchmark is not optimized for dual cores. ARM regularly advertises A9 performance as 1.5x that of the A8, so it may well still be a pair of A9 cores in there.
 
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chrmjenkins said:
Sounds like the A5 chip is actually a dual-core cortex A8, not cortex A9.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2...costs-remain-largely-unchanged-for-ipad-2.ars

If that's true, I became a lot less interested in the iPhone 5.

edit: Several commenters have pointed out that the java benchmark is not optimized for dual cores. ARM regularly advertises A9 performance as 1.5x that of the A8, so it may well still be a pair of A9 cores in there.
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The comments on the article are great they basically trash talk all the assumptions made to come to the conclusion of A8 cores.

Although from an engineering point of view two A8 cores would be very impressive seeing the A8 doesn't do dual core in standard config. On top of halving the power use of the A8 to get two of them in same usage. An impressive waste of resources, seeing the A9 was designed to do that off the bat.
 
I guess, but ....

As someone who has owned just about every one of the popular wi-fi router brands at one time or another? I finally broke down and bought an Airport Extreme, because I'm just sick and tired of the reliability problems and other issues with the cheaper competitors.

Sure, it's not as configurable as a lot of routers on the market, but at least it does what 99% of the users want. If you're in the other 1%, you probably want to hack/reflash a router like a Cisco/Linksys with WRT-DD firmware or something, and take that approach anyway.

In my case, I have AT&T U-Verse service, so I'm stuck using their supplied "residential gateway" as my main router. Problem is, it only has built in wireless g, not n - AND it has a serious bug in it that causes clients to stop communicating through it after a while if your wireless encryption type is set to WPA or WPA2, and you have enough different devices sharing your connection. The cheap wireless N routers I've tried to add on as wireless access points (disabling the U-Verve's built in wi-fi) usually don't have enough signal strength to keep reliable connections with my machines downstairs, and most don't support the 5ghz frequencies at all (only 2.4ghz). That alone is a good reason to pay more for an Airport Extreme -- it's a true dual-band "n" compatible router. Plus, I like the fact it allows sharing of a USB printer on my network. That saves me the expense of buying a separate print sharing box to network one of them.


JAT said:
And it's more expensive than any competitor, and it doesn't have a built in switch, making it even more expensive.

I do have an Airport Express, that works great for its intended uses. (although still expensive)

I didn't have any time this weekend to "play" with the router. So I just added screensaver + security back onto the computer in question for now.
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Qualcomm has a dual A8 snapdragon chip, which is why it's not out of the question. I'm wondering if the A5 shares a lot of design features with the Orion like last gen.
 
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