It'd be nice to have the option
Could always back up and wipe, then restore after crossing the border I suppose
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Sure I could do that, but I'm super lite phone user anyway, so I just don't have much on there to begin with.
TThat is the way human perception works. In general, you have to double something before we are able to notice it without resorting to using instruments to measure it.
The best example is the cameras; each shutter speed or f-stop lets in double or half the light of the one next to it. Also, we measure sound loudness with “dB,“ where 24dB is twice as loud as 21dB.
With computers, you usually need to double the RAM before you notice a difference, and CPU speed is about like that too.
Of course, we can measure finer details, but we can't "feel" them.
One reason why a 35% faster CPU does not "'feel" faster is that if you check, you will see that most of the time, the CPU is doing exactly nothing. If it is running at 40%, that means it is idle 60% of the time. And for most people, even 40% utilization is high. So if the GPU were faster, all it does is move the utilization from 40% to, say, 30%, so now it is spending 70% doing nothing. You would not notice.
The faster CPU is only faster on tasks that use 100% of the CPU; those are not common. Look at Activity Meter and see.
A car that can go 200 MPH is only fast when your foot has the accelerator pushed to the floor. If you never do that, the car is not faster.
