This is what I'm wondering as well, as it is possibly my biggest annoyance with the original iPad Air. Have you tried opening multiple tabs in Safari and then using a handful of other apps for a while? What happens when you re-open Safari?
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iPad iPad Air 2 Safari Reloading Experiences: 10 tabs ok so far
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This is what I'm wondering as well, as it is possibly my biggest annoyance with the original iPad Air. Have you tried opening multiple tabs in Safari and then using a handful of other apps for a while? What happens when you re-open Safari?
Nope, all still fine with silly amounts of tabs open as well as a few apps and games (Asphalt 8...). Truly amazing
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It just keeps going and going. Not a single refresh or stutter.
I'm with others here. Why is it so surprising for some people to understand that there are people out there who have multiple tabs open at the same time and in a lot of cases permanently. It's a lot more common then some people seem to believe and it's not just techies. I permanently have four tabs open and often end up opening another three to four. On my iPad Air the sites are constantly refreshing which is extremely annoying and if this is resolved on the iPad Air 2 then that will be the best improvement by far.
Everyone I know with an iPad doesn't care about tabs in Safari. They just let Safari slowly fill up with tabs, since many links you click on automatically opens the website in a new tab. They never manually switch tabs, they just open a new website in the tab they're in.
As long as a website or app loads up fast, it doesn't matter if it loads from scratch, or was stored in RAM. Except in the very specific iPad usage scenario where: you switch back and forth between apps or website tabs AND the app doesn't support auto save/auto resume or you were filling out a form in a website.
Sure, there are a few users who could use extra RAM. But these users would probably be better served with a laptop, but if they really want to use an iPad, then Apple does gives the option of the iPad Air 2 with 2GB of RAM.
I completely understand why Apple gave 2GB RAM to only one iPad model. The average user doesn't care about RAM would be fine with the $249 - $400 iPads, and the few who do care about RAM have an option to have extra RAM with the $500 iPad.
Just proves that original air customers were short changed by Apple, not to mention the fan boys that kept whining that it was a software optimisation issue and therefore had nothing to do with the crippled sRAM. I had the original Air but sold it as soon as I realised the hardware limitations. As soon as the 2gb sRAM is confirmed by a teardown, I will pull the trigger.
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So explain to us exactly why Apple offered just 1gb of sRAM on the exact same flagship model last year and now decided to double it?
Dude, it's confirmed now. You really need to see a photo of the physical RAM chip?
I mean, if you're so untrusting... What if Apple only put 2GB in *some* iPad Air 2 models, and yours ends up with 1GB?
This also begs the question as to why Apple decided to double the sRAM. Surely if 1gb was enough they would have sticked to it.
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Dude, I got short changed by Apple twice already: The first time was with the iPad 3, which was a half baked product that was rushed into the market for the retina eye candy. The second was with the original Air. I was duped into thinking that the A7 chip would the magic, not aware until afterwards that 64bit would end up eating 30% more of the sRAM, turning it into an inferior product to the iPad 4. It made me regret selling my iPad 4.
My iPad is my primary device and gets used far more then either my MacBook Air or Mac Mini. My MacBook hasn't left the house since I got the original iPad. I doubt I'm the only one in they or a similar situation. Consumption is my primary use and I really do not create that much content if any at all. I use both Safari and Chrome and both have the same issue and can be extremely annoying. I'm not going to switch to a laptop just to resolve that one issue. Hopefully the iPad Air 2 will mean I won't have to deal with this problem any more.
Even though I haven't gotten burned before, I'm really half committed into my iPhone 6... I wonder if moving away from the S cycle is going to make me regret. At least its not a 6 Plus which seems to be having some issues coping just like the Air 1.
It looks like the iPad 2, 4, Air 2 have hit the sweet spots for the iPad. The 3 and Air 1 weren't so great, and the original iPad has been forgotten about.
My mom came and visited and she had like 100 tabs open at one time. Ok, I'm exaggerating a bit but it took forever to close them all. I didn't even know it was possible to have that many tabs open at one time.
My mother-in-law is visiting and I took a look at her iPad. 35 tabs open, and another 10 open in Private mode (about which she knows nothing, and undoubtedly opened accidentally).
I closed them all.
I want to see it for myself! That many tabs opened and no refreshing?
The problem is you folks are using the new Air wrong. What happens when people use theirs right?
The problem is you folks are using the new Air wrong. What happens when people use theirs right?
So.. you closed the tabs, but why? These iPad users are like most, they don't care about tabs. And they don't care about more RAM. They just simply care about accessing a website.
My mother in law had the same problem. I watched how she uses her ipad for a bit, and found that basically, any time she clicked a link in an email, the OS switches to safari, opens a new tab, and loads the clicked link. She gets a ton of newsletters and forwards, so this happens ALL THE TIME. She had at least 25 tabs open.
I closed them all.
I want to see it for myself! That many tabs opened and no refreshing?
The problem is you folks are using the new Air wrong. What happens when people use theirs right?
Go see for yourself then. But I've known for years that 2GB of RAM would fix this issue.
A 64 bit retina display iPad with 1GB ram only has about 225 MB RAM available for safari. The webpage being displayed on screen is uncompressed in RAM, taking up around 100-150 MB RAM. The webpages in tabs are compressed in RAM, taking up around 50 MB each. So, 3 tabs without refreshing for iPad Air 1. With 2GB RAM, there would be 1000-1100 MB for safari. Meaning 20 webpages without refreshing.
FYI safari/webkit on iOS/OS X is very memory efficient, much more so than desktop firefox and chrome.
There is nothing new revealed here, no surprises, just facts that people don't know.
Why are so many people surprised? I wasn't ever surprised. You could have even easily gathered your own scientific data: just see how much RAM iOS uses without running an app, see how much safari uses while running, see how much compressed tabs use vs. uncompressed, etc. Very easily done.
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Most of us iPad users use our iPads this way, please explain how is this a 'problem?'
Also, why even bother with OCD tab closing when she has no clue about such a thing, will never care, and will just open them again?
It was a "problem" for her because she had no idea it was happening, it served no purpose for her, and all of the open tabs simply lagged up her experience.
For that reason, I closed them all.
I think we have the same mother-in-law. I lost count of all the tabs she had open when I took a look at her iPad 2.