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My Soul Is Crushed - 1GB of RAM

The safari reloads never really bothered me. I never even realized it to be an issue until I saw people posting on here about it. 1GB will suffice for the next year for me. To each his own though...
 
hipnetic said:
Wait...isn't the OP the same guy who was accusing that other guy of being a troll when he posted that he had hands-on time with the new iPhones and he stated that they only had 1GB of RAM?
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He also said the 6 Plus ran super hot and the official reviews say the 6 runs hot. So he still was wrong in other aspects...
 
I would love to do a blind test with members of this forum. Give them 2 identical iPhone 6 Plus phones, one with 1GB RAM the other with 2GB RAM. What percentage would pick them out correctly?
 
I honestly don't think having 2GB of RAM would make a huge difference. The way iOS multitasks doesn't require more than 1GB to run smoothly. I had the Note 3 for a few months, which has 3GB of RAM, and that **** would get bogged down pretty quickly and slow down.
 
I've looked and looked. I've asked in various threads...

Does anyone know if the ram is DDR4?

Upgrading the ram to DDR4 may help.
 
horsebattery said:
One of the benefits (?) of this is that it makes going back on these forums easier since the threads reload for me... at the cost of all other pages refreshing on back, whether I want it to or not. I mainly use Chrome for development work so it's not too much of a bother, but that also forces me to use Chrome on iOS as well, if I need tab synchronization.
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Well luckily in iOS 8 third party apps such as Chrome will get access to the same super fast javascript engine that Safari uses, so they should be fairly comparable in performance for the first time ever. I just wish Apple would make it so I can replace certain apps with others. Maybe extensions will take care of this? But still, tapping a link is going to open Safari. I don't see a way around that. I am also fairly skeptical of Google and their horrible privacy policies. But if the tab refreshing doesn't get better then I may switch.
 
boo ****ing hoo your ******** phone isnt replacing your ultimately superior computer and never will
 
scrubmilk said:
boo ****ing hoo your ******** phone isnt replacing your ultimately superior computer and never will
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Actually, I know several people at work that bought an iphone for the sole purpose of replacing their computer needs.
 
ghsNick said:
He also said the 6 Plus ran super hot and the official reviews say the 6 runs hot. So he still was wrong in other aspects...
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6 Plus ran hot, I didn't spend enough time playing with the 6 to see if it ran hot as I was more interested in the 6 Plus, wasn't even considering buying the 6. Now I'm not really considering buying either :rolleyes: Note 4 looking better to me.
 
ghsNick said:
Today is the definition of first world problems...after conflicting reports and articles, I'm starting to believe my beloved 6 Plus has 1GB of RAM.

As a shareholder I'm glad Apple saved their money, as a customer I'm devastated. I get many will try to defend their decision but I personally bought the highest 6 Plus model...that's $1,000 off contract.

How will I survive the next two years of Safari reloads?
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The real scam isn't the 1GB of ram, it's the 16GB of storage. That's a much bigger issue.

Pay apple prices or just get something else. There are excellent phones out there.
 
Just return it if you aren't that happy with it. Clearly the 6s will have more RAM in the device because they need big selling points for the S line next year.
 
chupachup said:
The real scam isn't the 1GB of ram, it's the 16GB of storage. That's a much bigger issue.

Pay apple prices or just get something else. There are excellent phones out there.
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A bigger issue for you. For me the extra 100 dollars for the 64gb is nothing and I'd rather have the 2gb. The 16 gb being base doesn't effect me at all, because even if the base was 32 gb I'd never go for it because that's not enough.
 
jmantn said:
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.
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Man that guy makes good RAM.
 
Whether there is 1gb of ram or 8gb of ram in the phone, it's pretty simple. Go to the apple store and do the tests that would see if more than 1gb of ram is necessary. If safari is unable to have at least 5 tabs open without reloading pages constantly, then more ram is needed, or Apple needs to figure out what's wrong with the browser. Or if you have a few apps open and they keep restarting after switching between them, you need more ram. Real world usage is what matters. If apple can optimize the heck out of ios8 for 1gb of ram, then so be it. Perhaps android needs 3 or more gigs of ram due to how its optimized.
 
vgamedude said:
A bigger issue for you. For me the extra 100 dollars for the 64gb is nothing and I'd rather have the 2gb. The 16 gb being base doesn't effect me at all, because even if the base was 32 gb I'd never go for it because that's not enough.
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Funny. You guys were arguing with me that an iPhone only needs 16GB that it was more than enough. Just about a month ago.

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Havok83 said:
it better have 2gb. I cant believe this one is releasing with just 1
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Believe it. It is pretty much a fact.

The rule with apple is, never buy the first of anything. With iPhone you should always get the S release.

Anyway. Enjoy your iPhone 6. You'll get the 6s next year anyway and apple knows it.

They could just change the color and leave it the same with an 8x processor that is 50% faster (as usual) and it'll break sales records again and you'll get one. And on and on it goes. And it'll have 1GB of ram too.
 
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