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iPhone 6 Plus 2GB RAM?
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Both 6 and 6+ use the same A8 chip, indicates they have the same size of RAM.
http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/specs/
Otherwise Apple should have labeled that differently, like A8 and A8X for example.
http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/specs/
Otherwise Apple should have labeled that differently, like A8 and A8X for example.
This does indeed seem like some iOS Safari specific bug. Someone else mentioned it didn't happen on their iPad 2, so maybe it is an iPad Air specific bug.
The reply page in MacRumors is almost all text. Not many images, so having the website stored in RAM would take almost no space. I do think this is an issue that could be fixed. With the iPad Air video, it doesn't seem to me like an example of "ZOMG TH!S TABL3T N33Ds m0RE R@M!!!" Could just be a bug in the program.
No it isn't. RAM is ON the SoC. Do some research.
No they don't. Did you read the ********ng article?
It says "Early benchmarking using the Geekbench application suggests that the processor is dual core, and has a frequency of 1.4 GHz. It's paired with 2GB RAM."
The ONLY early benchmarking we have seen is the iPhone 6 4.7inch with 1GB RAM, so they've either made a typo or just taken a shot in the dark.
I recon a lotta peeps are gonna be annoyed when they see they're both 1GB.
This is true for all the devices but iPad Air, where RAM is separated from the CPU
6 Plus with 1GB http://www.phonearena.com/news/Apples-iPhone-6-Plus-phablet-also-comes-with-1-GB-of-RAM_id60741
fail.... -.-'
fail.... -.-'
No. The A8 and RAM are fabricated separately. Both the A8 chip fabricated for Apple by TSMC and the memory chips supplied by Hynix are placed beneath a single heat spreader, so it appears there is only a single chip, but there are multiple chips beneath the heat spreader. Apple could easily produce two variants with different memory configurations.
Even in the stacked configurations (i.e., used prior to iPad Air), the AX and memory chips were manufactured separately and assembled later. The purpose of the stacked design was to save board space, i.e., to reduce the total area occupied by the chip and memory. Thanks to newer fabrication processes, the chips are smaller and a stacked configuration should no longer be necessary. A stacked configuration also results in a thicker (as opposed to a wider) chip.
Are you able to link me to any literature that confirms this?
I can't find anything at the moment! Cheers.
why are u guys concerning about the ram? it will run fluid, no matter if it has 2, 3 or 4 GB RAM.
u guys sometimes act like android/samsung users with their focus on specs.
The primary point about ram is not all about speed but about capacity. A good example is trying to swim in your bath tub (1 GB) vs trying to swim in a full size pool (3 GB). The bigger pool can hold more people (programs or resources) at any given time but your bath tub can only hold one person. A phone like the Note 4 can take advantage of this memory buy running 2 apps side by side at the same time with no ram penalty. Or web browsers can have more than 5 tabs open due to more space in the memory "pool".
Sometimes when apps close unexpectedly it's caused by the apps running out of memory. I've seen this behavior with the iPhone 5s and iPads but not with the Note 3 or even the Nexus 7. I expect the situation to occur frequently due to the higher resolution. A app designed to run full 1080p will be more taxing than the majority of apps running on let's say the iPhone 5s. So it's not all about speed; more about capacity.
Over 5 million page faults, 24 MB free? That's...not good. I wonder what apps they were running.
were u experiencing any problems about that in the previous versions of the iphone? i think the memory-management in ios is pretty good and can handle all you need, setting the right prioritys for programs that may need more attention then others.
if you look at the past years, i think its not the primary goal for apple to be ahead of its time (on spec side). but time has showed that all iphones were (around their release time) able to handle all kinds of high-intense usage. or am i wrong?
You can harp on Apple praise for as long as you want. But tabs will still refresh on mobile Safari.
I'm no programmer but one can make a logical assumption that programs designed for 1080p resolution will be even more demanding than the iPhone 5/5s resolution. I only owned my iPhone 5s for 30 days before I got rid of it due to those memory crash reports when Safari went south on me on a daily basis . It's the same reason why I avoided the iPad last year.
I really don't understand Apple now. They criticized large phones for years and now they release a phone that's taller than a Note 4 yet they can't figure out how to add 2GB of ram? And to add insult to injury these phones are the most expensive on the market. Apple thinks that we are just a bunch of idiots.
I'm just going to hold off and look at reviews and actual user experience before I doom this phone. So far it's not looking good on paper. Had high hopes that the Plus model had more Ram.
I imagine the 2GB ram thing will be left for the iPhone 6S next year. You can only add so much to the operating system in terms of features with 1GB of memory. Eventually they will need to increase it just like 640K of memory was all we ever needed according to Bill Gates in 1981
well i got your point and do overall agree with it ...
but if there really is a problem with Safari (e.g. crash cause of many tabs opened), then i guess its a more software related problem. even 2 gb of memory should handle many loading tabs at the same time. but correct me if im wrong... im no tech-pro.
maybe i didnt experienced those problems cause i didnt run many apps at the same time at all and close all my not needed safari tabs.