There are certain content heavy content sites that reload or give errors as you are scrolling through them. That's with one tab active. Not to mention things like Spotify starting to glitch and crash if you start doing tasks while listening to music
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iPhone 6s to only have 1GB of RAM?!!!
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There are certain content heavy content sites that reload or give errors as you are scrolling through them. That's with one tab active. Not to mention things like Spotify starting to glitch and crash if you start doing tasks while listening to music
It always starts with a MacBook
I was PC until late 06 or early 07 when I got a MacBook and haven't looked back since.
After some 25 years of MS-operating system computers, I finally switched to a retina MBP a couple of years ago. I already had an iPhone and iPad, but it was the MBP that really hooked me on Apple products.
The code name for the Nexus 6 is Shamu... And it indeed lives up to that name. If you like big phones it's good for you, if you prefer smaller devices Apple is really the only way to go currently (minus the Sony compact devices)
It would be nice to have 2gb of ram for my iPhone 6 for the safari tab reloading. But as long as I'm on wifi I don't really care. The a8 chip is so fast that the reload time doesn't bother me. The big problem is if you are primarily using cellular data. That could become a problem real fast as it would suck your data usage down pretty fast.
It would be nice if they could bring the tab reloading/app refreshing back up to the iPhone 5 on iOS 6 standard. Those were the days. Pretty much everything I would do would stay loaded in the ram. It would only kill something if I ran a graphic intensive game.
One thing I've noticed in iOS 8 is all safari tabs run as their own process where as in iOS 6 they were all just hooked to one main safari process. It's all finicky in iOS 8 and as soon as it starts to get a little low on ram iOS starts closing out those tabs one after another. They have no priority anymore. I think if they tweaked the programming some and set iOS to prioritize certain apps higher up on the chain things could get better again without throwing 2gb of ram in there.
It would be nice if they could bring the tab reloading/app refreshing back up to the iPhone 5 on iOS 6 standard. Those were the days. Pretty much everything I would do would stay loaded in the ram. It would only kill something if I ran a graphic intensive game.
One thing I've noticed in iOS 8 is all safari tabs run as their own process where as in iOS 6 they were all just hooked to one main safari process. It's all finicky in iOS 8 and as soon as it starts to get a little low on ram iOS starts closing out those tabs one after another. They have no priority anymore. I think if they tweaked the programming some and set iOS to prioritize certain apps higher up on the chain things could get better again without throwing 2gb of ram in there.
I'm not sure it's an issue of how iOS 8 handles tabs vs how iOS 5 and 6 did. I think it's more an issue of websites are much larger now with content. Then add in that all apps themselves are also larger (which makes it easier when going to another app to quickly boot out the safari tabs out of ram sooner than it used to.)
If I learn all about RAMs and giggabites and computery stuff, then please may I be allowed a phone with 2GB? Pretty please?
Profit margins. 1GB of ram costs less than 2GB and the iPhone sells extremely well. Why change?
I don't think upping the RAM to 2GB is very necessary. That said, I'd be shocked if they didn't bump the memory up. Make no mistake, iPhones are the flagship iOS devices - and now they committed to 2GB in iPads I'd expect the new iPhones to get the same treatment.
Not 100% totally necessary, but needed possibly for any future features we don't even know about yet. Apple probably already has most of iOS 9 mapped out on what it's going to get in 9.1, 9.2, 9.3 and so on. More ram allows for more advanced features (Air 2 split screen first and prime example of this.)
Greed (profit margins). There's no other reason whatsoever when phone manufacturers have moved on to LPDDR4 (in case someone wants to make an argument for energy efficiency).
I don't buy this though, there's no reason for this and to even think that Apple would divide RAM (internal hardware) between their flagships (6S and 6S Plus) is simply moronic. It would simply add fragmentation, which is nothing but problems.
That clock rate also seems too high (too much of a jump).
This seems legitimate to me and sufficient proof the 6S will in fact have 2GB. We can all stop worrying now!Here guys I fixed it lol
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Same discussion gets stirred up again after quite a few previous ones, mostly rehashing the same things over and over, simply because of some faked picture? Ah, yes, the internet.
They will sell like hotcakes even if the only improvements are the cpu and the taptic haptic thingamajig. Maybe the starting model will have 1 GB memory, and you pay extra for 2 GB.
The Italian website iSpazio has received a leak from an iPhone 6s Plus tester.
I'd say almost definitely fake, normally it wouldn't be listed as 'Apple A9' but something like 'ARM-xxx-xx', as Apple wouldn't announce their SoC prematurely. And the model is always the 8,2 rather than its name.
The below leak for reference:
Yeah, I think they put the name "iPhone 6s" so the screenshot would spread more easily amongst the people who don't know the latter naming.
So if this is true (the technical info looks more believable) then we have a tri-core A9 with 2GB of RAM, so essentially a slimmed down more power efficient A8X.
Good. That A8X was (and still is) a monster when it launched a year ago beating everybody with essentially half the cores and a fourth of the clock speed.
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