This dumbass reply... Go buy an iPhone 1, you can get it for $30 or less.
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iPhone 6s to only have 1GB of RAM?!!!
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No, the bandwidth is the speed of the pipe accessing the ram and has nothing to do with the amount of RAM.
I think it was stupid of Apple not to announce the RAM amounts today. I know they don't usually announce that kind of thing during the keynotes, but if they had announced it, then it definitely would have calmed down all the squabbling and uncertainty. Maybe most people don't care about RAM, but some do.
At the very least, they should've put it on their specs page.
At the very least, they should've put it on their specs page.
The point is, Apple doesn't care, never has. What Apple announces publicly is what they want to do, not what you want them to do.
I guess the millions of units they sell justifies to them that their marketing and design are adequate. Feel free to write Tim an email to discuss.
I care about the specs that are relevant to the performance and usability of my device. So for my car, I want to know the horsepower, torque, gas mileage, displacement, engine configuration, transmission type, gear ratios, etc. And I get all that info. For my toaster, I want to know how many slices of toast I can fit, how hot it gets, and so on.
With the iPhone, RAM is a critical specification. It tells me how well the phone can multitask.
Okie dokie, we arranged to send 50 of them to stay with you. Please pick them up at airport Friday night at 8:30 pm.
While I understand Apple not announcing RAM during the presentation, it's inexcusable not to include it in 'tech spec' page on their website, it's inexcusable for us to have to wait until the tear down to find out phone's specs
What an analogy. I care as much for how much RAM my toaster has as I care for how many slices of bread my iPhone takes. As written above by another user, RAM is a relevant spec for a (mobile) computer, at least 1GB vs 2GB is a critical difference at this point of app evolution where it indeed can make a real life difference no matter how optimized Apples iOS works. It isn't for a toaster or a car.
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Not true. The devices shown yesterday didn't have any way to install apps like Geekbench, and the first units don't ship until 2 weeks from now.
This. I wish people would understand there's a reason android phone manufacturers are consistently upgrading the specs of the hardware, and it's not just to look good on a spec sheet.
Except it will. 4K video at 30fps is a huge amount of data, so before it's written to the storage it's buffered into RAM since it's much faster. When recording is done it starts writing to storage. 4K at 30fps is just shy of 350MB a minute, so you can record about 2 minutes of 4K footage before 1GB of RAM will bottleneck the **** out of the phone. Remember that the RAM is shared between the CPU and GPU part of the A-series chip, so if 700MB is taken up just by a video you're done with a total of 1GB of RAM.
I asked chat the same question and was told 'we do not have released information on ram with iPhone I'm afraid' ... As I expected. I wonder if the transcript above is genuine. I have my doubts?
It means they do have that information, but it's not for release just yet. They wait until people get deliveries of their iPhone then announce the bad news. Well played Apple.
There's just no way it's still 1gb of RAM. Apple wouldn't release another crippled device after the outcry over RAM in iPhone 6
Not only that. Literally everything else got 2gb (Apple TV and iPad mini 4, iPad Pro) I'd say it's pretty safe to assume the iPhones did as well.
Maybe they improved the storage speed so it writes directly to it? But they still screw the customer with 1GB RAM.
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