Yes you get a *lot* of page reloading in Safari. Sometimes you only need to open a second browser window and the first gets flushed from memory. Luckily, unlike the iPhone 3G, the iPad remembers whether you have navigated to the current page from somewhere else, so the back button still works. However, the iPad badly badly badly needs more RAM. Apple were clearly on another planet when they specced 256mb for the iPad. Hopefully OS 4.0 will bring some major memory savings.
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iPhone 4 Confirmed to Have 512MB of RAM (Twice the iPad and 3GS)
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Yes you get a *lot* of page reloading in Safari. Sometimes you only need to open a second browser window and the first gets flushed from memory. Luckily, unlike the iPhone 3G, the iPad remembers whether you have navigated to the current page from somewhere else, so the back button still works. However, the iPad badly badly badly needs more RAM. Apple were clearly on another planet when they specced 256mb for the iPad. Hopefully OS 4.0 will bring some major memory savings.
Really great to hear it has 512MB, I was disappointed with it having only 256MB.
Any info on the CPU clock and the GPU model?
Thanks!
Any info on the CPU clock and the GPU model?
Thanks!
Honestly, after WWDC, I started wondering if the iPad would get updated with the front facing camera, and now more RAM when iOS 4 is available for it sometime this fall.
I have an iPad and I'm still happy with this news.
The iPad is not obsolete now. The iPad works great with the RAM it has.. It's still fast as hell.
And I'm glad my new iPhone will also be fast as hell.
In about a year we'll see an iPad with at least 512 mb of memory and hopefully a better screen (not a retina).
The iPad is not obsolete now. The iPad works great with the RAM it has.. It's still fast as hell.
And I'm glad my new iPhone will also be fast as hell.
In about a year we'll see an iPad with at least 512 mb of memory and hopefully a better screen (not a retina).
well of course it is man... it's intel, isn't it?
that's why the i7's overclock to 4ghz with no problem.
intel dribbles out chips with artificially low clockspeeds, and slowly increases those as it moves forward selling. it's all the same chips... they are just "rated" to run faster.
Yes, iPad 2 will definitely have at least 1GB of RAM. Then they can say, ZOMG!! 4x faster!!
...j/k
they have increased my gpu speed with a firmware update a couple years ago but the cpu still says 2.8 while it is in fact a 3.0 chip. My point was that apple has under clocked many devices and then clocked them back up in the future instead of putting a completely new chip in. the 2.8 core 2 duo imac is the same chip as the 3.06 core 2 duo. the only difference is the clock speed that has been up'd by software. This is probably not so in the "i' series chips from intel. The intel chips are cheaper now than they were in 2007 and doesn't cost apple as much to change chips instead of just changing clock speed and calling it a new chip.
I can guarantee you the iphone 4 only has 512MB of RAM because 256MB was not cutting it, probably because of the cameras and the phone, and features related to those (all of which the ipad does not have). Certain chunks of that RAM are going to be set aside for those by the OS, maybe permanently set aside, especially for any phone-related features that cannot wait for memory to free up and cannot risk errors due to no available memory. The "HD" recording alone could be needing a ton of that RAM, something the ipad just doesn't have to contend with. It is very likely that the amount of free available memory (for apps) on the iphone 4 won't be much or any higher than on the ipad (or the 3GS).
Just wait and see how much RAM the next ipod touch gets, since it will likely have some of the camera action, but not the phone. I suspect if it comes with the same video recording specs it will also have 512MB RAM.
Just wait and see how much RAM the next ipod touch gets, since it will likely have some of the camera action, but not the phone. I suspect if it comes with the same video recording specs it will also have 512MB RAM.
Ah, okay.
Well, my iPad works, so I'm not complaining
And that's the most important point.
Who cares how much of anything, whether that be RAM, GHz, GB, or whatever, if it does the tasks speedily and well?
Any discussion of the former (RAM, etc.) when the latter (speed of task) is good is merely a bunch of willy waving, and incredibly pointless.
proof that just quickly glancing over MacRumors can be a dangerous thing!
next time, slow down and read. arn will appreciate it.
Sorry, but a number on a single slide presented in passing to make some a point that was independent of the iPhone 4 itself does not convince me, even if it's from an Apple presentation. That could have been a guess, a mistake - lots of things. The fact that there was only 256 MB on the protypes of the actual iPhone 4 hardware device is a more convincing argument. The 512 MB may be true, but I'll believe it only with the actual production phone breakdown.
Tony
I see a lot of confusion in this thread about what a processor does and what RAM does.
But great news. I was hoping it'd have 512MB!!
But great news. I was hoping it'd have 512MB!!
I have no idea why people think that because the iPad didn't have 512MB of RAM, the iPhone 4 wasn't going to have it. Apple doesn't work that way. In September, Apple could update the iPod Touch and put in 1 GB of RAM and a 2GHZ processor (they aren't going to, I know that).
If you were not being sarcastic, then thank you for proving my point. they are underclocked. intel and apple are not going to throw last months chip in the trash and build a new one. they will just up the speed of the previous chip until it reaches the max speed possible and then start designing a new chip.
the iphone 4 chip is underclocked from ARMs original spec for that chip. Next year watch the ipad 2 be 1.3ghz A4.
Regardless of how easy it is to get access to the videos, I'm pretty sure you've agreed to not post such screenshots from the developer sessions on a public forum.
The iPad is not being marketed as a laptop replacement. It is marketed as something different; something other than a phone or a laptop.
Well, that was almost 7 years ago, and Apple was behind current technology then, as usual. So it's really like 10 years ago that most PC's had 512MB RAM. That seems rather underwhelming to me.
Unless you were being sarcastic.....
Tony
The rest of the forum is dedicated to, or populated by, posts from people complaining (or claiming the execrable "epic fail" )because they didn't get what they wanted or because specifications of the actual product didn't match overhyped RUMORS or random musings in other posts.
By the way, where's my PowerBook G5?