No, those devices proved nothing of the sort. But thanks for contributing to the overall buzz word fest.
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iPhone 6 Plus Might Be Limited to 1 GB of RAM
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No, those devices proved nothing of the sort. But thanks for contributing to the overall buzz word fest.
Chrome crashes just as much as Safari. IMO, it's not a Safari issue, especially on the iPad.
Some guy over at The Verges Apple forum was convinced that the iPhone 5s couldnt keep more than 3 Safari tabs going without reloading and was challenging people to open 8 web pages of his choice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc42WICBFuY
I really dont see an issue with just 1GB of RAM, though I do wonder if the increased resolution of the 6 Plus requires more RAM (surely its more of a GPU/CPU thing?).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc42WICBFuY
I really dont see an issue with just 1GB of RAM, though I do wonder if the increased resolution of the 6 Plus requires more RAM (surely its more of a GPU/CPU thing?).
At this time I have a beautiful but hateful Galaxy and mine has 2 gb or ram and a 4 core processor and it crash every day at least once. It shuts itself down and I hate this. My beautiful iPad with 1 gb of ram has never failed not even froze and it doesn't shut itself down aaaannnd the battery life is excellent not like my phone that its so hungry that I have to charge sometimes twice in a day and its on standby. So I guess 1gb for a good phone is more than Okay I don't see the bad thing here.
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I think the point is that midrange 2 year old phones have 1gb of RAM (such as the midrange 2 year old phone sitting next to me). 2 years later, and with a 64bit CPU, it still only has 1gb....
Just strange making comments about something you have no clue about.
Please explain in detail what makes the iPhone specs mid-tier. Please explain in detail why Apple made a poor choice with 1 GB of RAM.....you can't, because they didn't.
On the iPad Air, I can occasionally see the need for more RAM, because Safari on the iPad is more conducive to multi-tabbed browsing....which seems to need more RAM to prevent tabs reloading (BTW....WAAAAAAA).
No other aspect of the OS or Apps has ever lead me to believe RAM was lacking (coming from someone with 16 GB of RAM in his Macs and PCs)....especially not on iPhone.
The whole argument is a tech nerds fantasy.
1999 called and wants it's AGP RAM Aperture back.
The PowerVR GPU, just like every other GPU in the last decade that is worth talking about, has it's own separate memory specifically for frame buffering, 3D textures, etc.
I was the latter but I'm over it now. But still comes back to the fact that you're paying a premium price for something that's pretty average in terms of specs.
Also I've never used anything iOS related so it could be optimized where 1 GB is more than enough, if that's the case they need to lower the price to the same as other smartphones that still use 1GB. Just my thoughts
Agreed. I'm no electrical engineer, but common sense tells me that having to constantly reload contents would use up more battery power - more CPU utilization, more wifi/cell radio use (not to mention more data used), when it needlessly close browser tabs due to lower memory. And the endless logs of low memory and Safari crashes eating up bytes and bytes of storage too lol.
I have had Safari reloads and apps shut down in the background on my iPad (where I use memory-intensive apps like Office), but it hasn't been an issue at all on my iPhone 5s.
I'm not sure why people were expecting anything different from the 6 Plus vs. the 6. Apple would have branded a chip the "A8X" or something like that.
Just FYI, the safari tab reloading is a software issue, not a RAM issue. iOS and Safari are too aggressive about freeing memory being used to hold web page state.
Some people seem fixated in the idea that more RAM will fix this issue. But it won't. At best it will make it somewhat less common. It may not help at all.
(I analyzed the memory usage of various browsers to get reasonable numbers on how much RAM we might expect various web pages to use. I also looked at the total size of resources downloaded for various web pages. The sort of it is, even desktop browsers use a matter of megabytes to hold page state... Maybe a few for a simple page. Maybe a few tens for bigger sites. These aren't stressing 1GB iOS devices.)
Some people seem fixated in the idea that more RAM will fix this issue. But it won't. At best it will make it somewhat less common. It may not help at all.
(I analyzed the memory usage of various browsers to get reasonable numbers on how much RAM we might expect various web pages to use. I also looked at the total size of resources downloaded for various web pages. The sort of it is, even desktop browsers use a matter of megabytes to hold page state... Maybe a few for a simple page. Maybe a few tens for bigger sites. These aren't stressing 1GB iOS devices.)
Will 3.9 million Cancelled Orders crash the internet?...
Im betting there would only be 1 cancellation - If that. Even the borderline crazy that read its 1 GB and finds it a problem will be fighting against the stronger "I must have iPhone! Must have it yesterday". They won't cancel! haha
iOS is so good at memory management that my Safari pages reload all the time, Safari can't remember where I left of in a page if I open a new tab, apps crashes, apps reload/restart if you switch to another app, gifs load SO slow or not at all because my Safari crashes, and can't do true multitasking because of memory... yeah... iOS Memory Management is fantastic! Having 1GB of memory makes my iOS experience much better!
Totally. It's always better to have a smaller battery, a 326 ppi vs 400+, and no optical image stabilization. Right?
Yep totally, it's always good to own a phone that is closer to a phone sized device then the iPad Mini.
The 6 is a better phone is all ways and closer to the size a phone should be.
The 6 plus is a better mini tablet. But still too small for a mini tablet, the iPad Mini is a better size for that.
Actually iPhones use a unified memory architecture. GPU and CPU share the same RAM.
I never have crash issues on my Note II.
Before I'm labeled a troll, I do have a MacBook and an iPad.
Hopefully we'll get a good confirmation on the RAM issue after Friday.
Okay so if I do update now, will the device 6 or the Plus hold up for at least 3 years? iOS should run smooth, Apple does take care of that but what about some intense apps of the future? Will they be fine on 1gig of ram?