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New Photo Claims to Show 2GB Elpida RAM Chips for iPad Air 2

peterdevries said:
The new iPhone 6 and 6+ have both been tested and rank among the fastest smartphones available. The same is expected to be true of the new iPads.

Besides an issue with page reloading tabs (of which it is in no way certain that it is attributable to a lack of RAM) there have been no wide-publicised issues with a lack of RAM for any application on iOS that I'm aware of.

So what are you talking about? In what way would 4 Gb RAM make the iPad any faster or better performing? In stead of just repeating the same "we need more RAM" mantra, I would really like to have some insight into what people are missing here.
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The current iPad Air is only a kick away from the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus on Geekbench. While only benchmarks it's clear the issue with iOS 8 on the current iPad Air is down to poor optimisation. 8.1 is better than 8.0.2 but there's still plenty of improvement to be made before it reaches iOS 7 levels of smoothness.

It's only in beta 2 so hopefully there's still time for more tweaking.
 
peterdevries said:
So, it has higher resolution AND a higher performance. How is that not an improvement? What do you currently consider slow in the iPhone 6? Does any App or function not perform fast enough?
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always thinking ahead of the future ;)

my mind tells me to wait for the 6S but my body is too impatient :D
 
Finally!!!, what are the cost anyway of putting 2 GB ram in their phone.

So I will wait until iphone 6S comes then.
 
RebornProphet said:
The current iPad Air is only a kick away from the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus on Geekbench. While only benchmarks it's clear the issue with iOS 8 on the current iPad Air is down to poor optimisation. 8.1 is better than 8.0.2 but there's still plenty of improvement to be made before it reaches iOS 7 levels of smoothness.

It's only in beta 2 so hopefully there's still time for more tweaking.
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always waiting we are... release a finished product they must
 
bushido said:
always thinking ahead of the future ;)

my mind tells me to wait for the 6S but my body is too impatient :D
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I see your point.

The only real valid reason (IMHO) would be to make the devices more futureproof. The build quality of Apple products is increasing (I know about the bending stuff...) so people tend to carry them around for longer. It would help to make the devices run better on future versions of the OS.

All these other complaints about only x Gb ram or new iPhones or iPads "not being fast enough" are just empy-headed comments with no solid foundation in experience with these new devices being actually slower as a result of that.
 
Tech198 said:
GeekBar ??

Now that is something i can get in in to :)

running at different sizes, so are we going for some sort of "picture-in-picture mode" here. but separate.?

I guess i can probably understand the split screen, but 2 Gig ? Surely, u can do the same in 1 Gig or Ram can't you ?

You still have two apps running separately, so how come suddenly when their side by side, more ram is needed ? unless its a totally sluggish-type of moment, then i would agree 'add more ram'

but are our devices really THAT slow u can't even use them ? Next, Apple will find a reason to use 3Gig.

Unless i didn't get this, but i can quite easily switch between multiple apps now on iOS 7. Maybe more RAM for iOS8 not just the apps..... I can understand that since make made it that way.
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When only one app is running, the minimum amount you need is enough to run the app. Any on top of this is still very useful as it can be used to suspend background apps in RAM and so on, which allows for faster resume, less tab reloading in Safari and so on. We can only speculate on how exactly Apple manages the memory in iOS, but if the app you're using uses a lot of RAM, iOS will clear out some of your background apps from RAM. They will have to reload from the storage next time you open them.

When two apps are running, the minimum you need is of course enough to run the two apps. So the average RAM requirement for your foreground apps doubles in split screen mode. You still want some spare to keep background apps suspended, and the more the better, so doubling the RAM seems sensible.
 
Great news to hear. But I'm really interested in if they are going to increase the clock speed of the A8
 
That's just maddening if they put 2 GB in the 499 iPad but not in the 649 and 749 iPhones with higher margins. At least we know it will be in the 6S.
 
Fantastic. I'm stoked.

Sales haven't been as great as in the past on the iPad recently. Apple is going to kill it with this new iPad Air 2. It'll be a beast.
 
Carlanga said:
Man Apple is really milking ram and hd.
These should be 4gb. Especially now that we are living in a 64bit portable world filled w simplistic memory hogging designs.
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Many people familiar with the subject speculate that the reason that iOS devices still only have 1 GB of RAM is that Apple is supply-constrained (this article mentions that "Apple’s consumption of mobile DRAM will grow from the current 16.5 percent of the industry’s total production volume to 25 percent in 2015" http://press.trendforce.com/press/20140925-1658.html)
 
a0me said:
Many people familiar with the subject speculate that the reason that iOS devices still only have 1 GB of RAM is that Apple is supply-constrained (this article mentions that "Apple’s consumption of mobile DRAM will grow from the current 16.5 percent of the industry’s total production volume to 25 percent in 2015" http://press.trendforce.com/press/20140925-1658.html)
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I could accept that, other than the fact that other brands of phone use far more RAM than Apple do in their models, and their brands sell more.

So I'm puzzled why Apple alone would have supply issues
 
Carlanga said:
Man Apple is really milking ram and hd.
These should be 4gb. Especially now that we are living in a 64bit portable world filled w simplistic memory hogging designs.
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Considering they are using 25% of the world's RAM in 2015.. I think there may be other reason than "greed" in keeping the RAM down. Supply constrainsts may be significant.

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Piggie said:
I could accept that, other than the fact that other brands of phone use far more RAM than Apple do in their models, and their brands sell more.

So I'm puzzled why Apple alone would have supply issues
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The only brand that sells a lot is Samsung and maybe Samsung is using 25-30% itself. The fact Samsung actually produces its own RAM probably makes supplying it less of a hasstle :).

If Apple doubled its usage say in phones and ipad, they'd reach 50% of the world's Ram supply and probably run into logistics and quality issue since I doubt they would come from one company.
 
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dylin said:
Great news to hear. But I'm really interested in if they are going to increase the clock speed of the A8
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They could, but they don'T have too. If they keep it as is, the battery life of the tablet would be fantastic; with the same screen and battery, 50% more! With a higher resolution screen it would be 0-10% unless they can increase the battery size.
 
MacRumors said:
It is likely that previous iPads have not seen a memory increase to keep costs low and preserve battery life
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I suspect the real reason was cost, memory supply and model/generation differentiation. RAM doesn't really use a lot of power. 2GB smartphones have been available for a few generations now and some devices are moving to 3GB.
 
booksacool1 said:
I suspect the real reason was cost, memory supply and model/generation differentiation. RAM doesn't really use a lot of power. 2GB smartphones have been available for a few generations now and some devices are moving to 3GB.
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And they are laggy as hell!
 
Piggie said:
I could accept that, other than the fact that other brands of phone use far more RAM than Apple do in their models, and their brands sell more.

So I'm puzzled why Apple alone would have supply issues
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How many 2GB Android handsets sell more than the iPhone? Samsung highend models maybe, but apart from that?
 
no way....iOS is such an efficient OS. It does not require 2GB of RAM...All those refreshes in Safari is due to inefficient coding....
/s
 
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