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iPad Whose in....no 2 GB RAM, no iPad

cperchard said:
Wow....do you have to wait 3 seconds for it to refresh? Boo hoo.....what an age we live in. :rolleyes:

I'm sticking with my air unless it halves in weight....that's the only thing that may convince me to upgrade.....frankly they can put in 8GB Ram in for all i care, if it weighs the same I'm sticking!
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Thats not the problem, i could be filling out a form on Safari and have to look for a phone number or something important and go to the E-Mail app or Contacts app and go back to safari and, boom i lose all my data i typed. super annoying.
 
jamesrick80 said:
i am a iPad Air owner currently. If Apple doesn't upgrade the ram, no way will I purchase the iPad Air 2. Who agrees?
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In other words, if the iPad Air 2 isn't a substantial upgrade then you won't upgrade. Or am I missing something?

(I'm not trivialising the PITA that the limitation of 1GB presents on the iPA)
 
Alith said:
Well it can't have been that much of a revelation if you're still here reading an iPad rumour forum.
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Revelation?
I will still use the ipad as a GPS and entertainment device for the truck.
The mini with the lifeproof case fits perfectly in the dash.
The mini is a great device, this cycle doesn't appear to have enough to justify an upgrade. Instead I will use that money toward the surface.
 
As a home owner with kids and a car I do not have the luxury of flipping iPad every year. Good for those of you who have set financial priorities on getting pretty much the same thing two years in a row... ;)
 
You guys should use a better browser. Mercury browser doesn't reload tabs compared to safari.
 
itjw said:
I still don't get what critically important "forms" people could possibly be filling out on their iPads? Forms so important (mind you) that they couldn't possibly just dedicate one tab (because that would work flawlessly), they need to have 6 different "forms" open and be playing music, watching video, and playing games (all while filling out multiple critically important forms). It's kinda silly when you think about it.
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Six tabs is a bit many, but it's not unreasonable to expect it to hold three or four: say, Facebook, Hotmail, a site where the user is commenting and a site where the user is copying to paste into the comment site. It's frustrating to copy and come back to the comment site to find that what's been typed is all lost because the tab reloaded.

Silly in the grand scheme of things, such as a First World problem? Sure. But it's also frustrating enough to prompt some users to buy another device. Judging by all of the complaints on here and other sites, that's a lot of users.
 
I wonder if Apple will announce it even if it did move up to 2GB.

Anyone else notice the endless low memory errors in iOS 7 is replaced by endless "stacks + backboard" in the diagnostic log? Each entry is super long too. It is taking up precious processing and battery power, not to mention bytes and BYTES of storage in writing these logs :mad::p It's there even in the iPhone 6.
 
iosuser said:
I wonder if Apple will announce it even if it did move up to 2GB.
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They won't announce it. They'll probably try to avoid any connections to the insufficient amount of RAM in the current iPad Air. No need to risk any bad publicity.
 
Trahearne said:
iOS does lacks part of the paging ability, but read-only, storage-mapped memory can be pageable as usual. The problem with Safari in iOS (as it seems) is that it holds the content only in the memory, except history & web local storage, but never the non-volatile memory. I guess pretty much all the mobile browsers do this, as you wouldn't want to wear out the NVM.
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OK. So, we agree then? More RAM should help the issue.
 
WashupDawg said:
They won't announce it. They'll probably try to avoid any connections to the insufficient amount of RAM in the current iPad Air. No need to risk any bad publicity.
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Yup, they'll focus on moving forward..

(And thinner.)

They barely even discuss the storage sizes, only mentioning them when it comes to the pricing section of the keynote.
 
Grolubao said:
I installed Background Manager from Cydia and now I can keep all my apps in the background without refreshing and I still have 150mb free of RAM. It is just the aggressive way that Apple sleeps Apps that is causing this.

Even with available RAM Safari still reloads tabs
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It's tr that it'll still reload but a lot less frequently :p
 
RLesko said:
OK. So, we agree then? More RAM should help the issue.
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Yep. At the current 1GB step, more is better, though the advantage outside games, content creation apps dealing with super large images, audio and video files and also browsers could be marginal. Perhaps just fluid split screen and holding more app contexts in memory.
 
Statusnone88 said:
Hopefully we'll know by tonight because preorders go live at 3:00AM EDT.
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And?

I think we'll know late next week when the tear-down sites take delivery.

With the increased power and their focus in the keynote on productivity apps I would not be surprised to see it have 2GB.
 
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