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RAM: Xoom 1GB - Playbook 1GB - HP Touchpad 1GB - iPad2 ?
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I also think that freedom from iTune is just as important as RAM!
Seeing as more RAM benefits everybody not just those who dislike iTunes then i would say that extra RAM trumps it easily.
What do you particularly dislike about iTunes if i can ask?
Well, how about making it so that I don't have to physically connect the device to a computer JUST TO START using it? Apple needs to copy Google's remote install like yesterday.
The greedy slime balls! From now on I'm only dealing with companies that aren't so focused on sales and profits, oh wait...
Content is king, so it is really not whether or not the iPad 2 has 1GB compared to the competition which will decide what will sell and what isn't.
Only geeks will bother reading through the spec-sheet anyway, so it boils down to clever advertising and showing what the device is capable of.
Only geeks will bother reading through the spec-sheet anyway, so it boils down to clever advertising and showing what the device is capable of.
You cannot really compare ram usage from one machine to that of another machine. The performance of 512MB of ram on the iPad 2 could be equal to that of 1GB of ram on the other tablets. We just don't know.
The only other thing I can tell you is that by talking about it on this forum isn't going to make it magically happen. At this point if the iPad 2 is coming out in a few months the product is already finished and is being manufactured as we speak. Sure we could sit here all day and wish and hope but the fact is that it is too late. The specs are locked in. In fact they may have been locked in already for 6 or 12 months. Apple doesn't just wake up one day and decide to change something. It takes many months of planning and logistics to get things put in motion to manufacture that many products of this caliber.
The only other thing I can tell you is that by talking about it on this forum isn't going to make it magically happen. At this point if the iPad 2 is coming out in a few months the product is already finished and is being manufactured as we speak. Sure we could sit here all day and wish and hope but the fact is that it is too late. The specs are locked in. In fact they may have been locked in already for 6 or 12 months. Apple doesn't just wake up one day and decide to change something. It takes many months of planning and logistics to get things put in motion to manufacture that many products of this caliber.
Just to throw one more device into the mix:
Rumor says a 10" version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, with Honeycomb, is due very soon.
Rumor says a 10" version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, with Honeycomb, is due very soon.
Personally I'm not thinking about the RAM in a "how the machine runs" kind of way.
The Amiga 1000 in 1985 came with 256MB of memory
The Amiga 500 which came out a little later had 512MB but had a small trap door underneath where a 512MB memory upgrade could be fitted in.
I bought this extra memory upgrade at the same time I bought my Amiga 500, simply because some games needed the extra memory to run.
The "Devs" at the time could do more advanced programs if they had the extra memory space to work with.
It had nothing to do with The Amiga's desktop working any better, it just gave the devs more space to develop better software.
That's my same reasoning being the iPad's RAM. No I don't thin 1GB as the other tablets will have is needed to Safari or the photo app, however it would allow developers to write, or port over some more advanced software that otherwise they could not do.
No one in their right mind should ever want less RAM, that's just moronic and holding back some software from being created for the platform.
Sorry to be pedantic, but we are talking mid-80s here, I think your numbers are off by 3 orders of magnitude
Sorry to be pedantic, but we are talking mid-80s here, I think your numbers are off by 3 orders of magnitude
Yes, it's amazing to think the iPad has the same memory fitted as a machine 26 years ago, and it was considered not enough back then!
My point was not that so much as that some seem to feel the RAM is needed so the iPad can run better, when it's nothing to do with that.
It's to make better, larger, more professional apps possible, be they games or utilities.
Sydde was trying to gently point out that it was 512 KB back then, not MB.
Otherwise I agree that more RAM never hurts.
(Personally, as an old embedded systems person, I think it's ridiculous that a handheld OS requires hundreds of megabytes of memory to run.)
Indeed. Reviews of the new dual-core Android phones are starting to trickle in, and even with the massive power of the new SoC, many are seeing the same comment over and over again: sluggish UI.
Now the iPad and iPhone have buttery smooth UI with less power and less RAM. Seems to me that if Apple doesn't need to bump the iPad to 1 GB just to tick a box in a comparison if the UI and performance is still better than the competition.
Very true. I know people who would buy it even if it didn't work and rave about how great it was. LOL.
If you know anything about Apple, they never compete on specs. Instead they will compete on features that any consumer can look at and understand, like unibody construction, or proximity sensors, screen resolution, backlit keyboards, physical design, etc.
No one cares about 256 vs. 512 and snapdragons and multi core except people on sites like these..