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iPhone 12 Pro Models Have 6GB of RAM, iPhone 12 and 12 Mini Remain at 4GB
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I’m pretty sure Apple will do the 24-month interest-free loan whenever you like, as long as you’re willing to pay for AppleCare and let them call it an Upgrade Program.
My XS Max was paid off last month, and honestly the AppleCare came in handy.
Put it this way, if 1TB storage needed 2GB extra RAM for whatever reason, then the 1TB iPad Pro (2020) would have 8GB. All iPad Pro models come with 6GB this year.
In short, Apple adds RAM when they think the user needs it. This year, they think iPhone Pro 12 users need it but not regular iPhone 12.
Supply and demand. We take it for granted that technology is moving as fast as it is. Enjoy it, this wild ride won’t last forever. Stagnation, technological dead ends, misguided politicians, the economy, there will be a time it slows to a grinding halt.
Good to know 12 Pro Max will have Pro-RAM. This is Pro-gress.
Honestly that's what I am looking forward to , apple must make dockable ( like Galaxy note) with pen support etc.
no they actually explained it during the event. The bigger size of the Pro Max gives them more real estate for a larger image sensor etc
So...I found this interesting. I was leaning for the gold, because (you might think this is dumb...) My favorite color is usually Orange. I was hoping to get an orange-like color. Sadly, we cannot see these before I commit on Friday. The Gold may be stunning....I do not know. Gold is not orange. What if I get the gold and it turns out it looks like a 1970's brass faucet...? I know they say in houses brass is coming back, but for me it just looks dated. A friend of mine just told me that the gold is "a bling-like female color". That was HIS words, not mine. After all that, I think I'll wuss out and order the iphone12Pro blue Friday. Unless they showed more pictures or I could see something that convinces me other-wise. Please...no bashing....
Yeah, but nobody is buying the iPhone 12 Pro for more RAM, and 6GB still isn't a lot, and previously there wasn't even an additional RAM option for iPhones.
The pros are 128gb storage and 6gb of ram. If you don’t wanna buy a new one then don’t. But they have been upgraded, sorry it’s out of your price range this year
Even 4GB is enough for a PC. The RPi4 usually has that much (though it goes up to 8). Before anyone brings up web browser tabs, hitting disk swap space to store tabs isn't so bad anymore now that it's not on an HDD.
Btw, the iPhone 11 Pro CPU already is faster per core than most desktop CPUs and not a whole lot slower multi-core, so it's not surprising Apple is putting their own ARM-based chips into Macs.
Please, I can buy several iPhone 12 Pros if I want to, but I already have a 6S. What do I need the 12 Pro for?
Plenty of tech heads will buy the Pro for more RAM and the proof is right here in this post:
Six MacRumors posters aren't indicative of the general population. I can find 20 people on this site right now that would buy a MacBook Pro with user-swappable CPUs or a DVD drive.
Which is why I specified tech enthusiasts and not gen pop. Gen pop doesn't care about anything but price and battery life. Next time don't say "nobody is buying the device for the ram" when its' very clear there is a bocal minority here who will.
Ok, but you're saying Apple's strategy with RAM allocation is to get people to pay more for the extra RAM. They don't even say anywhere on their site how much RAM the iPhone has. They don't care about a few MR users.
Yeah I was kinda hoping they'd ditch the numbers already. Leave the funny names for the tech specs.
Is the 12 Pro really that worth it compared to a 12?
I currently have a 7+ and want to upgrade to a 256GB iPhone. However, the difference between the 12 and 12Pro is about 150£, making it more than 1000£, which seems a lot.
I'm not a heavy heavy user, although I like to shoot the best quality possible since I'm a designer. I always managed to shot RAW on my 7+ with very good quality. so I guess the normal would do?
I don't see many advantages for the LiDAR yet, seems a bit software restricted...
I currently have a 7+ and want to upgrade to a 256GB iPhone. However, the difference between the 12 and 12Pro is about 150£, making it more than 1000£, which seems a lot.
I'm not a heavy heavy user, although I like to shoot the best quality possible since I'm a designer. I always managed to shot RAW on my 7+ with very good quality. so I guess the normal would do?
I don't see many advantages for the LiDAR yet, seems a bit software restricted...
At this point I'd prefer the cat names. Probably the worst iPhone name yet is the iPhone XS Max. Like, am I buying a modern premium Apple product or some 2005 sliding HTC phone?
I didn't say anything about Apple's strategy, you're intimating. I was replying to your comment that "nobody is buying the iPhone 12 Pro for more RAM" which is an objectively false statement as I showed you. Context matters. If you were speaking about general population, you should say that instead of using absolute phrases like "nobody". Cheers!
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but sorry for not using precision language to indicate that I don't literally mean 0 people when I say "nobody."
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I agree as well that largely it is apple’s decision for additional RAM per new device. But then the combination of hardware and software also plays a role too
and quite frankly I think it was a great move for apple on a point to give 2 extra GB of RAM to even further differentiate the Pro line from the Normal 12 line😁
That's actually a terrible idea to swap to NAND storage since it has finite write endurance compared to nearly infinite for DRAM.