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Time to give us more RAM apple
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Yes, more DRAM takes more battery.
However, that didn't stop Apple from already doubling the iPhone memory a couple of times since it first came out.
DRAM also gets better, faster and lower power each year, allowing a doubling without a major hit. Old battery saving techniques such as intelligently powering down unused sections during standby have come back into favor as well.
However, that didn't stop Apple from already doubling the iPhone memory a couple of times since it first came out.
DRAM also gets better, faster and lower power each year, allowing a doubling without a major hit. Old battery saving techniques such as intelligently powering down unused sections during standby have come back into favor as well.
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I wonder what would use more battery? Having more RAM by default or having Safari re-render pages & loading cached/uncached assets in tabs due to limited memory when doing extensive tabbed browsing?
That is one area where I'd guess extra RAM woukd be beneficial.
I wonder what would use more battery? Having more RAM by default or having Safari re-render pages & loading cached/uncached assets in tabs due to limited memory when doing extensive tabbed browsing?
That is one area where I'd guess extra RAM woukd be beneficial.
Tell me your joking.....The Skype deal is a setting in the Skype app. You have to set it to not log you out after an hour. :face palm:
edit: before you give me some answer about how you looked and there are no settings in the app or whatever.... go to settings > Skype >Go Offline....set that to never.
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More than likely Apple will introduce 1GB of RAM for next gen iPhone. IOS 6 will surely have some new features that will just blow our minds and it will be needed...
Yea the app (UI etc) may get kicked out of RAM...but the service that Skype uses never quits. It continues to run in the background. So the "app" may close, but the service keeps running. I've had it running for days before and I've always appeared as online to my friends.
Just ignore those who think that Apple's perfect, and act so judgmental. No company or human is. The haters just need a place to vent, they choose this forum. It seems to fulfill their needs.
Sorry, but you don't get it at all. 5% memory free is good - why would you want it all empty? Then you're wasting battery on that RAM for no reason at all. Besides, the system is *designed* to use all of the available memory. It doesn't mean you have "no memory left" - if an app needs some memory the OS will free it up automatically.
My suggestion: delete these crappy "system monitor" apps and stop worrying about it. What they report is pretty much meaningless, because the system works differently to a desktop and numbers that scream "NOT ENOUGH MEMORY" on a desktop OS just indicate that iOS is running normally.
And avoid the apps that "free up memory" too. They promise to increase speed and battery life, but in practice they slow everything down because apps have to restart from scratch instead of resuming from sleep (the memory is not meant to be freed up for this reason!) and worse still, it wastes a chunk of battery life doing that.
Yeah, you're right. I just re-tested this and it did keep the service open.
It certainly never did in an earlier build.
Thanks for the clarification.