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iPhone 13 Models Have the Same Amount of RAM as iPhone 12 Models
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LOL - folks - obviously they have their programming together that doesn't require massive amounts of RAM like Androids do. So - this really is a non-starter.
Would we have liked the current flagship to have more and bigger and better across the board? sure - but my 12 Pro Max is super fast and I love it. I am sure my 13 Pro Max is going to be just as good with that 120 Hz and better cameras. Go get an Android if it hurts that much.
Would we have liked the current flagship to have more and bigger and better across the board? sure - but my 12 Pro Max is super fast and I love it. I am sure my 13 Pro Max is going to be just as good with that 120 Hz and better cameras. Go get an Android if it hurts that much.
Better than adding 100GB of RAM because you need it like laggy android
That’s not really surprising. I was more surprised that Apple was comparing the A15 to the competition instead of the A14 like they normally do.
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Guess I can save some money and not buy the 1TB variant. I'm touching up against 512GB now on my 11 Pro but I can make 512 work another year. I assumed it'd be 8GB on the top model following iPad Pro logic.
I was pretty underwhelmed in general by this launch. I will still buy one because I buy the flagship iPhone every year and they're giving me $790 trade-in for my 12 Pro Max, but I can't help but think that Apple just did the bare minimum this year. From the iPhones to the Watch, they just made a few small tweaks and that was it. Nothing headlining.
Maybe the cameras will turn out to be way better, despite what the hardware specs would seem to tell us and the 120 hz refresh was nice (and overdue), but if I wasn't already in the habit of upgrading every year, I'm not sure I'd bother this year.
This isn't just an Apple issue either. Samsung is guilty of the same thing. Phones are just getting boring.
Maybe the cameras will turn out to be way better, despite what the hardware specs would seem to tell us and the 120 hz refresh was nice (and overdue), but if I wasn't already in the habit of upgrading every year, I'm not sure I'd bother this year.
This isn't just an Apple issue either. Samsung is guilty of the same thing. Phones are just getting boring.
It's not like the OS couldn't use the RAM. Will they run okay with 6gb? Probably. But a computer rarely runs worse with more RAM.
From what I've heard the CPU performance is expected to be roughly comparable, but it should come with a decent boost in graphics performance, especially in the Pro devices.
I was sitting on the fence until doing a Deep Dive into the image sensor specs.
The Back Wide Camera image sensor in the two Pro models has Game Changer potential !
ONLY thing I don't really like is being forced to buy a 256GB or bigger model to get 4K ProRes video recording support
There's NO technical justification for that !
But, it is what it is.
So, for me, it's $1,199 USD for the 13 Pro Max in Sierra Blue.
Love everything about it, except ... the Price !
Transitioning from an 11 Pro Max with 4 GB of DRAM, so the 2 GB of extra DRAM could make a BIG difference with High-Performance Camera Apps.
The Back Wide Camera image sensor in the two Pro models has Game Changer potential !
ONLY thing I don't really like is being forced to buy a 256GB or bigger model to get 4K ProRes video recording support
There's NO technical justification for that !
But, it is what it is.
So, for me, it's $1,199 USD for the 13 Pro Max in Sierra Blue.
Love everything about it, except ... the Price !
Transitioning from an 11 Pro Max with 4 GB of DRAM, so the 2 GB of extra DRAM could make a BIG difference with High-Performance Camera Apps.
Really - about the only thing they need is to control the thermals as 11/12 models would throttle down and lower the screen brightness after playing heavy duty games
And this is about Apple making money - if I buy a 128GB model - I should be able to fill it up with anything I want.
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Oh!, gods of Hades, please, help to explain to this humble unfaithful, from all the experts in your lares, what the material difference is, between 6, 7. 8 or whatever. The efficiency of the electronics for such a task, And I promise that the libations to Zeus would be plenty
I think people forget that memory management on iPhone tend to be a lot more efficient than on Android phones. There's a reason why flagship Android phones need 12 to 16 GB of RAM, due to the way Android does "memory cleanup."
Better off waiting until next year if you want the tick (3nm) in the tock plus design overhaul.
ONLY thing I don't really like is being forced to buy a 256GB or bigger model to get 4K ProRes video recording support
There's NO technical justification for that !
maybe the 256GB SSD has a faster write speed to enable the footage to be captured. Higher capacity SSDs tend to perform better
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So, apparently the iPad has more RAM than it can use, so folks aren't happy.
The new iPhone has the amount of RAM it can use, so... naturally...
Folks aren't happy.
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The new iPhone has the amount of RAM it can use, so... naturally...
Folks aren't happy.
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I think they only do this for spec sheet boasting, not because the phones actually need it. It's iPhones that slow down over time with updates, not Android.
Indeed, but hopefully this should be more proof that Apple's chip division exists mostly for PR and giving their fanbase euphoric nerdgasms whenever they throw out the word "design". They're given a lot of undue credit for the performance of iPhone chips when it was really TSMC doing all of the heavy-lifting.
Just giving credit where credit is due.