Trust me it does get worse. My iPod Touch once reloaded four times with that damn 'A problem has occurred with this webpage so it has reloaded' thing trying to load the same webpage. That ever happened to you?
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iPhone 5 in 2015
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Trust me it does get worse. My iPod Touch once reloaded four times with that damn 'A problem has occurred with this webpage so it has reloaded' thing trying to load the same webpage. That ever happened to you?
Yup, often. Some webpages fail to load at all so I have to abort the mission. They constantly give me the 'webpage had to reload' message.
It actually has more RAM than the next two!
The same 1GB on paper but the i5 is 32Bit and uses less RAM. The 5S is 64Bit and uses more, whilst the 6 is 64Bit and also has more pixels to push. The 6+ has the least amount of free RAM of any iPhone since the 4S.
It does have more RAM, albeit "free" RAM. The later iPhones do have LPDDR3 RAM though, while the iPhone 5 has LPDDR2.
I would much rather have more available RAM than a barely perceptible speed increase.
Yes, finally. The phone that should have followed the 5S. The 5S should also have had 2GB of RAM.
GPU pushes the pixels, not the RAM. GPU pushes the pixels, not the RAM. GPU pushes the pixels, not the RAM.
It would have been too soon for 2GB of RAM, considering that Apple hasn't doubled RAM twice in a row (besides iPad 1, 2, and then 3). The iPhone 6 and 6+ should have had 2GB of LPDDR3 RAM like the iPad Air 2, and the iPhone 6s's RAM would still be faster (if LPDDR4).
This is true. The GPU in the iPhone 6+ is actually pushing less pixels than the iPad 4 (with an A6X chip, a two-generation old chip), so I don't understand why some people say it can't handle it (I did not mention the iPad 3 for obvious reasons). I understand the phone has to downscale, but I would argue that the bottleneck in that phone is the RAM.
There is no dedicated graphics memory, or VRAM, so it uses system memory...
My rationale is that due to the 5S being the first 64Bit iPhone, it was also the first iPhone that (due to this fact) had less available RAM than the preceding phone. Launching an iPhone essentially with less RAM than the outgoing model was ridiculous. You say that it was too soon for double the RAM but the only alternative was less RAM, and of course Apple went down that route.
Do you have a 6 or 6+? I sure hope not, because I can't see why you would buy one of those if you felt the phone that came before it was already low on RAM.
In regards to the comment you made earlier in the thread about the iPhone 5 being the iPhone to buy if you care about keeping browser tabs and apps in memory... maybe those are big things to you, but I have never, EVER met someone with an iPhone that has complained about those things. Only on MacRumors is this a huge issue. That's not to discredit those with issues or downplay the relative lack of RAM, but most people don't mind waiting the extra second for a page or app to reload. I agree that the 2GB will be nice for people like you and I that notice that kind of thing, but it's a non-issue for most people. I would never hesitate to recommend the 6 or 6+, although it's getting to the point where I would recommend that people wait until September.
I agree that most people don't mind waiting for the reloads. My wife is one of those people, and was satisfied using her iPhone 4 on iOS 7 up until a few months ago when we got her the 5S (she liked the smaller size over the newer device). However, I only want the best for her, and I would want others to have a great experience with their smart devices. I would love for the new iPhones to have 2GB of RAM so that these people, who don't even notice, will have that much of a better experience with the device.
Exactly. 2 GB of RAM will be a better experience, but it doesn't mean that everyone is having a poor experience right now.
I am currently using iPhone 5. I did have a samsung S5 in between, then an iPhone 6+. The 6+ I decided
was too large, and sold it. I went into my closet and retrieved my iPhone 5 to use temporarily until the 6S or
7 comes out. Everything works perfectly on the 5, only major difference between 6+ was definitely battery
life and screen size for me. It's been a good phone.
was too large, and sold it. I went into my closet and retrieved my iPhone 5 to use temporarily until the 6S or
7 comes out. Everything works perfectly on the 5, only major difference between 6+ was definitely battery
life and screen size for me. It's been a good phone.
I'm pretty sure that's because MacRumors is a huge memory hog. It's the place on my iPod touch where I've hade the most reloads, by far. And on my iPad Air 2, I always have about a GB free, except for when I'm on MacRumors. It all makes sense!
Still, the GPU and video memory have different roles, just like the CPU and static memory (or whatever it's called) do. So yes, the system memory does handle both, but it's the GPU that pushes the graphics tasks, like rendering things in apps fro example, video memory handles videos, hence the name. I'm pretty sure that's how it works.
Yeah, I know. I was just skipping to the chase and pointing out that ultimately it uses RAM and the bigger the screen, the higher definition the screen, the more RAM needed.
So a 64Bit 6+ has way less available RAM than an iPhone 5. Pretty scandalous.
Fair enough. But it really isn't that much less available memory. Video memory tends to be required in much smaller amounts, so it is just a small chunk more. And with 64-bit, it is also a small chunk more memory taken.
There wasn't all that much to start with, so to start taking little chunks here and there from the RAM capacity of a two generations older phone isn't very good is it.
Of course, RAM is a means to store data. RAM doesn't do graphics processing. It does however store the data used by the GPU in its memory. The more pixels, the more data that is being stored in RAM
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I agree. I've skipped the 5S and 6/6+ because the 5 has just been that good.
I might move to a 6S in order to get TouchID, but I'd be perfectly happy to stay with the 5 if the 6S isn't head and shoulders above the 6.