RAM doesn't really matter now, but it does kinda blunt the potential of a multi-tasking update. Would be intrigued to see how this all pans out.
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How is a netbook rubbish? They are MORE CAPABLE than a netbook, and less expensive. And Apple's EULA forbidds a netbook to come with OSX unless its Apple netbook.
Agreed. I by a product for what it does not for how it works. Cost, weight, battery life and good performance at a few key tasks is what make's the iPad a good product.
More RAM or a faster processor might have made life easier for developers, but I suspect there will still be a rush to develop apps and lots of people to buy them.
Those who call others' words "rubbish" often speak rubbish themselves.
Anyway, I'm sure this is just "rubbish" to you, but my wife's original iPhone is noticably slower than it was on 2.x.
Must be something you are doing wrong or have done to it. Don't see that on my original iPhone. Each new OS has made it faster.
Essentially you are talking rubbish.
Dude what is wrong with you? I don't know what you're doing to make it so slow but I also have a 3rd gen touch and it's blazing fast at everything. 3.1.3
It seems like a lot of people debating the issues here in this thread don't really understand how/why computer memory works, what it does, how it is used etc etc.
Some people have touched on it, but a lot of people are making inept comparisons to other devices. It is ultimately all relative. Given that most of us really don't understand it to a level that is actually useful and are used to a singular bloated design of add more ram add more ram to run bloated desktop oses, I would say this:
Use it, and if it works well and does what you want than bully for you!
The reality is that more and more memory on desktop computers have made software developers and programmers extremely lazy. They overuse memory and are not efficient because they don't have to be. They can make bloated software and people will just buy more memory to run it.
It is not going to hurt them to be a little more efficient and a little more creative. This is how people used to have to program or so many years ago.
People are comparing this device to netbooks, laptops and desktops that run oses that in some cases use up to a gig of memory to actually run efficiently. That is not the case here.
Some people have touched on it, but a lot of people are making inept comparisons to other devices. It is ultimately all relative. Given that most of us really don't understand it to a level that is actually useful and are used to a singular bloated design of add more ram add more ram to run bloated desktop oses, I would say this:
Use it, and if it works well and does what you want than bully for you!
The reality is that more and more memory on desktop computers have made software developers and programmers extremely lazy. They overuse memory and are not efficient because they don't have to be. They can make bloated software and people will just buy more memory to run it.
It is not going to hurt them to be a little more efficient and a little more creative. This is how people used to have to program or so many years ago.
People are comparing this device to netbooks, laptops and desktops that run oses that in some cases use up to a gig of memory to actually run efficiently. That is not the case here.
Then do it and quit your whining. Nobody is forcing you to buy the product.
Ok, I have to ask this question, where did these guys at giz learn to create webpages and how fast is their connection speed where they work? Do they even bother optimizing pages for load times? Do they assume that everyone is on unlimited broadband?
Quite frankly, any web developer that has pages that "require" broadband for images to load should be fired. You should never, ever, ever embed large images in a page with height and width tags to shrink the size. It is bad netiquette to assume that everyone browsing your page has broadband and a lot of ram. If you are going to post large images, post a separate thumbnail image on the main page with a link to the larger image from the thumbnail.
I think some of those guys at Giz should be fired because imagine if some people are browsing stories on metered connections like a wireless card and your browser and you only see small images on the page but you are actually downloading large files in the background. How pissed would you be if you got a bill for an overage from your plan cap?
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7E18 Safari/528.16)
I hope not. I wonder how this will bode for the inevitable iPhone update. Will apples next phone have more ram than the ipad?
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I hope not. I wonder how this will bode for the inevitable iPhone update. Will apples next phone have more ram than the ipad?
I don't think that's the iPad's intended purpose.
Can't get one off the shelf, but netbooks are hardly rubbish. 10.6 "Snow Leopard" installs painlessly on a Dell Mini 10v ($250 - half the price of an iPad). Additionally, see the link in my signature.
Then whatever you are doing wrong is genetic. To be honest sounds like you're making it all up to me.
Same goes for OSX. 10.4 was significantly faster than 10.0 on my old G4.
And 10.6 is also noticeably faster than 10.5 or even 10.4 on my Macbook Pro.
LOL @ everyone justifying the low RAM size when the solution is soo complicated, quantum physicists are wrecking there heads right now finding a solution..... jam more RAM in....
How much is a 1gig stick nowadays? $10? Pull a couple of chips off that and sellotape it in there.
How much is a 1gig stick nowadays? $10? Pull a couple of chips off that and sellotape it in there.
Thats because the 3rd generation touch has more up-to-date hardware. In fact you touch has the same CPU, GPU, and RAm as the iPhone 3GS. My 3GS runs fine with all my 200 apps loaded on it. The iPhone 3G was slower on 3.x than 2.x, and the Original iphone is slower on 2.x than 1.4.4, and EVEN slower on 3.x than 2.x
Wow, you've had some bad luck. My original iPhone has seemed to be faster if anything upon being updated. I got a 3G S shortly after the release of 3.0, though, so I didn't use the original for long on the new software.
Edit: Also, my original iPhone only seemed slow after I got a 3G S! Now when I use my original or my friends' 3G phones they seem SO slow, but then I remember that mine was the same and it seemed perfectly fine until I got the 3G S.
I was just thinking about how everyone seems to be complaining about it possibly becoming slower after 1 year
well, all you people running windows, your computer always gets slower, especially 1 year after purchasing it. So why aren't you complaining about that!?! If you don't want it, don't get it, and stop bitching!
I disagree. I've been down the hackintosh netbook route. Slow hardware, bad designs, terrible trackpads and terrible screens. Sounds like rubbish to me.
Sure you can run the OS on any old PC, but you lose the magic that makes the whole package. If you want the Apple magic, which most people do, you have to pay for it which most people do not want to do. So the buy PC's, which is fine for me as it keeps me in work
Well, I'm not making it up. I hear more complaints after a major iPhone update that the phone is not slower at everything than faster. In fact you are the first person that I've herd of saying that. Go buy me an original iPhone with 1.1.4 on it, and let me show you how 2.x made it slower, and how 3.x makes the slug even more sluggish.
The reasoning for what appears to be a small amount if ram is actually in the iFixit article, which I bet most people whining haven't even read.