Yeah right...
The Macbook Air with 4GB RAM was a lie... yeaah suuuure. uhu
anyways I am not arguing with you anymore
There was also a 128 MB iBook that ran Mac OS X. I know, because I had one. You wouldn't want to run Big Sur on it regardless.
Even the relatively low-end 2015 MacBook, which does run Big Sur (barely?) started at 8 GB.
to everyone else who wants to join the discussion:
Even if the the RAM would be considered "critical" on the iPad. I dont think its quite comparable. The iPads have very very fast Storage.
My 1TB is in line with this. I cannot get the write test to work. But the read MB speed is around 1,300-1,400 MB. I wish the write test would work, but it fails and displays no results. I’ve tried uninstalling no luck. My overall storage results score is around 240,000. The 1TB iPads seem to...
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iPad Pro 12.9 (2018) 1TB model
1057 write
1321 read
That's not bad, and about on par with a MacBook Air, but way slower than a MacBook Pro:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...review-the-most-boring-mac-is-among-the-best/
(1,262/1,281 for the Air, 2,809/2,632 for the Pro)
Which… I would say doesn't quite support your point that the iPad makes up little RAM by fast storage. The storage of the high-end iPad Pro is only as fast of that of a low-end Mac.
Plus, iOS doesn't have even have swap.
Which by the way is a double edged sword of course. Because of that , Apple never saw the urge to bump up the RAM on iDevices frequently and extensively.
If you take a look at the Android phones which come from slower UFS (and even used to have SD cards) you can see that they always required a lot of RAM. 12GB RAM in a OnePlus 8 Pro... (to be fair the latest version of UFS is fast, but still.. you get the trend).
Android needs more RAM in part because of JIT and GC.
Anyways. lol. I was trying to say that Apple could potentially pull off some "Magic" with good App hibernation, given their crazy fast storage. I remember reading that Apple uses nvme protocol for the iPhone 6s NAND. One should not underestimate whats possible on the iPhones/iPads.
Yes, but then
at best, they're
as good as a Mac. And in practice, they're not.
Sorry, He’s right. You’re wrong. You wanna speculate on the trajectory 5 years from now, fine. Maybe Apple has plans down the road. But NOT Big Sur. Almost certainly not next year either.
There would definitely be more rumors and hints regarding something that huge. You’re just spitballing from your own backyard what you think is possible and perhaps what you want to see. According to Apple, current rumors against that idea, customer demand, the wwdc keynote, arguably the hardware, AND the LACK of rumors for the concept... this is not a concern your even this upcoming iPad Pro.
My bigger issue with this is that they haven't made the case on
why Apple would bring Big Sur to the iPad, and what that would entail. Is iPadOS dead on the iPad Pro (if so, why did they bother bringing changes like sidebars to it?)? Is this dual-boot (talk about a very un-Apple approach)? A built-to-order option (how do you explain this in marketing)?
