Sorry to burst your bubble, but you're wrong. Every time you load anything, be it a web page, cover flow album art, music, video - it's pulled from somewhere and into ram. When it's done, it doesn't keep it in memory, it simply couldn't. Data is discarded when no longer immediately needed. If the user has to use it again, it is substantially slower to access it than if it would have just left it in ram. More ram provides the means to keep things in memory longer rather than dumping them. All of this is possible, without the 'swap space' you introduced into the equation.
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Teardown of iPhone 4: 512MB RAM Confirmed and Other Notes
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but you're wrong. Every time you load anything, be it a web page, cover flow album art, music, video - it's pulled from somewhere and into ram. When it's done, it doesn't keep it in memory, it simply couldn't. Data is discarded when no longer immediately needed. If the user has to use it again, it is substantially slower to access it than if it would have just left it in ram. More ram provides the means to keep things in memory longer rather than dumping them. All of this is possible, without the 'swap space' you introduced into the equation.
Maybe in Apple's world (they have always been avaricious about RAMs) but PC laptops, even low end, already had 2GB a couple of years ago.
if you are talking 3-4 years ago, low-end laptops certainly did not have 2GB of ram. I bought a $2500 Dell 9400 as soon as the first Intel Core Duo chips came out, and I remember that the 2GB of ram I upgraded to was well out of the ordinary and really only seen in high-end desktop replacements. In fact, the original Intel Macbook (mid 2006) came with 512MB.
I'm glad SOMEONE got that...
Also, it's not far off the truth - that Gorilla Glass stuff is an alkali-aluminosilicate compound, closely related to sapphire. Seriously, it is, for all intents and purposes, transparent aluminum...
Could you electro-plate the glass with gold for example? It's only a matter of time before someone electro gold/platinum plates the bezel. I think it would look pretty good if done in the right 'shade' of 24k gold. I'm not saying Ives original design isn't lovely, it is. Just thinking out loud here...
But, that is head on. I want to see someone drop an iPhone on its corners and sides in the real world, not a test. (i.e. flying out of your hand and skidding across the pavement)
The Engadget review mentioned throwing it across the room. "Will it blend?" will be the defining test though.
I love how the battery can be replaced with basically 2 screws. This is an awesome step that I hope they do with the iPod Touch as well as other iPod models. I really cant wait to get my hands on one of these things, Im finally making the switch to AT&T for this thing. No more jailbroken iPhone 2g for me!
I like this iPhone upgrade but I still think that the 256MB in the iPad is pathetic - if that was enough for a mobile device, some smart phones wouldn't have 512MB already.
And it can be upgraded to 16GB, according to Apple. Which means that it might take as much as 32GB, if I stick to the usual Apple RAM figure. That is around 150 times more than what the iPad has.
The standard configuration for the Mac Pro has 'only' 3GB of RAM
And it can be upgraded to 16GB, according to Apple. Which means that it might take as much as 32GB, if I stick to the usual Apple RAM figure. That is around 150 times more than what the iPad has.
did anyone else notice this from the engadget teardown post?
The new AGD1 3-axis gyroscope is thought to be made by ST Micro and Broadcomm provides both the BCM4750IUB8 single-chip GPS receiver and BCM4329FKUBG receiver giving the iPhone 4 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, and an FM radio
fm radio?
http://www.engadget.com/page/2/
The new AGD1 3-axis gyroscope is thought to be made by ST Micro and Broadcomm provides both the BCM4750IUB8 single-chip GPS receiver and BCM4329FKUBG receiver giving the iPhone 4 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, and an FM radio
fm radio?
http://www.engadget.com/page/2/
That's interesting. I don't listen to radio anymore, but still pretty cool for those that do. I really was hoping for an fm transmitter built into the new iPhone, but I think that is something that is below Apple's standards.
They are using Corning Gorilla Glass
Picture at top look familar from a certain video?
http://www.corning.com/gorillaglass/...ngthening.aspx
Picture at top look familar from a certain video?
http://www.corning.com/gorillaglass/...ngthening.aspx
The iPad is not a Macintosh and its OS is not as demanding. Have you used an iPad? Have you found it to be slow in any capacity?
The 3GS was capable of FM radio too, it's part of the chipset. Doesn't mean Apple will use it, but let's hope. Perhaps the iPhone 5 will offer FM/HD radio?
Judging from Geekbench scores and a bit of armchair math, it looks to me like it's running around 866/900MHz, which is underclocked, but still better than the 600MHz of the last rev.
This is indeed a big step forwards
Apple has made the iPhone 4 easier to assemble and easier to service -- I wonder if that was the result of manufacturing feedback (profit) or customer feedback (satisfaction) ...?