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My Soul Is Crushed - 1GB of RAM
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Yeah that happens now even on the iPad...if you have too many tabs open or one of the sites is real memory intensive, when you go back to an old tab it reloads the page.
Don't give me hope. I've tried to hold on as long as possible but I'm pretty sure it has 1GB
I have no idea how Apple can even try to justify this with other phones having 3GB of RAM. Just think, Apple's 2012 flagship has the same amount of RAM as it's 2014 flagship.
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Well it already doesn't run that fine with Safari and app refreshes.
It would be funny if next year they remove the refreshes and tout it as a feature
Do you mean the iPad? It's supposed to be a problem on the iPad but not the iPhone (at least the 5s).
Are safari reloads really that big of a problem? Oh no my webpage refreshed! Who cares? Minor annoyance? Sure. Dealbreaker? calm down
Chances are you wouldn't even be able to tell. If you were given an iPhone 6 plus and were told it had 2GB of ram you would go on using it and thinking wow this thing is a beast now with the extra ram....then you're told just kidding it only has 1GB of ram. Would you still be upset?
Chances are you wouldn't even be able to tell. If you were given an iPhone 6 plus and were told it had 2GB of ram you would go on using it and thinking wow this thing is a beast now with the extra ram....then you're told just kidding it only has 1GB of ram. Would you still be upset?
I thought the same thing and mentioned it in that thread. Didn't have the evidence to support my claim though...
You've given me hope!
So many crybabies over a non issue. My retinal mini works fine with a lesser cpu/gpu and 1gb of ram... it has many more pixels to push than the 6+. I really don't understand all the fuss.
If I've read as much as I have then you'll see the model numbers for the RAM in the new chips are not the same as last years. There's a huge thread on this that was linked to the front page of macrumors.
Speculation is what it is however I read two possibilities: they use two chips for RAM and previously was two 512MB ram to equal 1GB and this time the chips will be 1GB each.
The other positive speculation was that due to the change in model numbers nobody knows for sure.
Anyways if you go back through macrumors.com front page posts you'll come across that thread and there was a lot of good discussion there.
But even if it comes with one GB it's not going to affect how apps currently run IMO. You can't compare an apple one GB device to an android 2GB device on most things and several professional reviewes of these devices reflect that.
An android phone with 2GB ram and a snapPea processor etc etc won't necessarily outperform a new iOS device because that SnapPea processor and that ram are generic and made for multiple devices and configurations whereas the RAM, the processor, the Mobo are all taylor made by apple and for apple and the software is specifically written for those components.
Hope that helps and for the record this isn't bashing android per say, Apple having complete control of the entire creation of the phone is something phones from Samsung etc will never be able to do until they make their own OS or Google buys them.
So if u have a 5S and felt the performance was somehow lacking then yes be concerned. Otherwise I wouldn't be. Only big difference more ram makes is what the apps can do at once like photoshop and in most cases existing apps are not as efficient as they could be and that goes for any platform.
Speculation is what it is however I read two possibilities: they use two chips for RAM and previously was two 512MB ram to equal 1GB and this time the chips will be 1GB each.
The other positive speculation was that due to the change in model numbers nobody knows for sure.
Anyways if you go back through macrumors.com front page posts you'll come across that thread and there was a lot of good discussion there.
But even if it comes with one GB it's not going to affect how apps currently run IMO. You can't compare an apple one GB device to an android 2GB device on most things and several professional reviewes of these devices reflect that.
An android phone with 2GB ram and a snapPea processor etc etc won't necessarily outperform a new iOS device because that SnapPea processor and that ram are generic and made for multiple devices and configurations whereas the RAM, the processor, the Mobo are all taylor made by apple and for apple and the software is specifically written for those components.
Hope that helps and for the record this isn't bashing android per say, Apple having complete control of the entire creation of the phone is something phones from Samsung etc will never be able to do until they make their own OS or Google buys them.
So if u have a 5S and felt the performance was somehow lacking then yes be concerned. Otherwise I wouldn't be. Only big difference more ram makes is what the apps can do at once like photoshop and in most cases existing apps are not as efficient as they could be and that goes for any platform.
Until Apple says something or an actual phone post-release is torn-down, nothing it confirmed.
Who said? A tech site? No-one did, did they?
Just wait until iFixit do their teardown.
If that is the worst of your problems, I'd say you are in pretty good shape!
I'm betting you'll be happy with its performance ;-)
Yea, this doesn't seem to be actually CONFIRMED.
For those 6+ owners that care, should just expect 1GB so they don't be disappointed. If it gets 2GB, then you get to be happy.
No loss.
For those 6+ owners that care, should just expect 1GB so they don't be disappointed. If it gets 2GB, then you get to be happy.
No loss.
I think this ram thing is blown out of proportion.
I think this is more of a software issue than hardware issue.
My 5 only started having safari crashes with later releases of ios7.betas and gm was perfect.
Coincidentally, my 4s has been working better than my 5 on the same software version, which I really don't get.
I think this is more of a software issue than hardware issue.
My 5 only started having safari crashes with later releases of ios7.betas and gm was perfect.
Coincidentally, my 4s has been working better than my 5 on the same software version, which I really don't get.
Oh we will notice when we can have substantially less safari tab reloads and low memory crashing.
Seriously, Apple is stubborn and baking a 1 year shelf life on these "new" iPhones if they only have 1GB of RAM. It's truly pathetic and will continue to show how pathetic it is once they try to roll out multi-tasking.
Obviously I was on the high that it had 2GB of RAM.
Be honest, if any other smartphone at the end of 2014 had 1GB of RAM no one would give it a look. Apple is giving us the same RAM for the third year straight.
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