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All iPads Will the next iPad Air 2 finally have 2 GB of memory?

Count Blah said:
Of which, no one has offered any facts. You and others claim it's not the ram, myself and others say it is ram. No one knows for sure. Yet you state it as fact, thus the "link?" Response.
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I posted facts in a response to one of your own posts in this thread. If you want to, you can read that.
 
s2mikey said:
What's going to happen if it does have 2GB of RAM and certain websites still crash safari or reload tabs? It could be the biggest human meltdown ever. Then, we can read thread after thread about how the Air should have 5 GB of RAM.

Grab yer favorite popcorn and blanket..... This is gonna be good.... :D
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well i think then we should start complaining about safari and webkit being made by incompetent people
 
So I've got the cash to upgrade my trusted iPad 2.

Is it worth waiting the 5 months before the Air 2 is eventually released because of the things mentioned in this thread or should I just take the plunge now? I've found a deal for a 64gb Space Gray with Black Smart Cover thrown in for £430.
 
BMox said:
So I've got the cash to upgrade my trusted iPad 2.

Is it worth waiting the 5 months before the Air 2 is eventually released because of the things mentioned in this thread or should I just take the plunge now? I've found a deal for a 64gb Space Gray with Black Smart Cover thrown in for £430.
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If you need that capacity then go for it now. The Air is a great device and the iPad 2 to iPad Air is a big upgrade. If you can live with 16GB for the interim, I would recommend looking for a good second hand deal on a 16GB Air as it will have less depreciation than a larger capacity model if you decide to sell it on when the new model is released.
 
Donka said:
If you need that capacity then go for it now. The Air is a great device and the iPad 2 to iPad Air is a big upgrade. If you can live with 16GB for the interim, I would recommend looking for a good second hand deal on a 16GB Air as it will have less depreciation than a larger capacity model if you decide to sell it on when the new model is released.
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Thanks for your response.

I guess my reluctance on just buying it now is that it will be my tablet for the next 2/3 years like my iPad 2 has been. So ideally I'd want to have the latest & greatest. But it could get to October and the Air 2 might not even have 2gb of RAM, so I'll have waited for nothing.

64gb is an upgrade on my 32gb iPad 2 so its a huge upgrade in every aspect.

It's a tough decision.
 
BMox said:
Thanks for your response.

I guess my reluctance on just buying it now is that it will be my tablet for the next 2/3 years like my iPad 2 has been. So ideally I'd want to have the latest & greatest. But it could get to October and the Air 2 might not even have 2gb of RAM, so I'll have waited for nothing.

64gb is an upgrade on my 32gb iPad 2 so its a huge upgrade in every aspect.

It's a tough decision.
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If your intention is to keep it for that length of time as you already have done then I would recommend holding off a bit longer for the new releases. Then if it isn't what you need then you can pick up a current gen Air for less money. A new release will still be a better performing device though, even if still at 1GB RAM.
 
Ezhik said:
well i think then we should start complaining about safari and webkit being made by incompetent people
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I have no problem with that. It's obvious they have made safari extremely inefficient as far as resources are concerned. I can play a graphically intensive game all day and it runs like a champ. Even though I don't have any problems with safari it does seem they've messed it up this time around. Or, it simply doesn't play well with the new architecture. Who knows?
 
s2mikey said:
It's obvious they have made safari extremely inefficient as far as resources are concerned. I can play a graphically intensive game all day and it runs like a champ.
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Memory intensive does not imply inefficient and graphically intensive does not imply memory intensive.
 
Count Blah said:
But reloading two tabs in safari, with no other apps open after 1.5 years of ios7 development implies the air shipped with not enough RAM.
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It indicates that this is not a priority for them to do anything about. The average user will never really care about this problem so they probably haven't made it any sort of priority to fix.

Think about it, there is enough memory to load up large games but not enough to load up a few tabs?
 
barjam said:
Think about it, there is enough memory to load up large games but not enough to load up a few tabs?
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pretty much. The browser ram grows rather large on my Mac. So I would expect the same on the iPad. Non apple programs have a limit to the amount of ram they can use, so why are people amazed that good developers can make amazing games with the given limitation?
 
Count Blah said:
pretty much. The browser ram grows rather large on my Mac. So I would expect the same on the iPad. Non apple programs have a limit to the amount of ram they can use, so why are people amazed that good developers can make amazing games with the given limitation?
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Then why can't good developers make safari run correctly with the limitation of 1GB of RAM?
 
s2mikey said:
Is this why some of us don't have this safari reload issue then? We are just visiting the "right" sites? Curious...
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Of course it is. Text heavy sites are not memory taxing. While high resolution images and videos are.
 
Dmunjal said:
Of course it is. Text heavy sites are not memory taxing. While high resolution images and videos are.
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That makes sense but I have visited several "busy" sites with videos, graphics, etc etc and still not had a problem. Just recently I had NHL.com opened watching highlights, a forum opened, and best buy.com. Going between each didn't cause any reloads. The NHL site had videos going too.

I stopped there. Maybe one more new tab would have triggered the problem. I'm tired of trying though. Just doesn't happen to me. :confused:
 
If the rumors about iOS 8 having split-screen multitasking are correct, then most certainly, "Yes."

jdg
 
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