iPad Will you ever buy another iOS device without 2GB RAM?

[JackieInCo]

Hasn't been a problem with the iPad Air I previously owned or the 1st generation Retina Mini that I still own or my iPhone 5S.

The only reason that I haven't bought a current generation iPad is that my 128GB Retina Mini is good for at least another year or two.

 

[GGJstudios]

Go ahead and make your videos of safari with two tabs not refreshing. It only proves the it doesn't happen EVERY time, but it does not make my video invalid.

All your video proves is that you were able to make it happen on your iPad. It does not prove that everyone else has the same problem and it does not prove any frequency of the issue, even on your iPad. It's fine to state that you have such a problem and even that you have such a problem frequently. Where you cross the line is to claim (with zero evidence) that the same thing happens on everyone else's iPads, or that they are lying or that they don't know what refreshing is. Those are all false claims without any shred of evidence. If you find 1GB of RAM insufficient for your needs, that's fine. Don't try to push your priorities and requirements on everyone else.

1Gig of RAM is not sufficient in an iOS tablet to write forum posts while researching items in a separate tab.

It may not be sufficient to do that in your experience, but others have different experiences.

 

[Aneres11]

I've just sold my iPad Air 1 and am waiting for my Air 2 to arrive tomorrow.

I only ever had like 3 tabs open at one time and the refreshing of the tabs is just crippling.
I post to forums a lot, not this one but another that I am very active on. Just opening a second tab to get the URL of an image (for example) to paste into the tab I have open with the forum stuff on, would result in a refresh. Every. Single. Time.
I couldn't care less about a normal web page refreshing, but when I've typed something on a forum, and it has refreshed because I've opened another and found an image, is a complete joke. Anyone saying otherwise is kidding themselves. It's a huge problem and thankfully it has been addressed by adding more RAM to the Air 2.

I was looking to maybe go for the Mini 3 but seeing the lower ram still in there it completely put me off.
I could go for another tablet, but for me, Android is not built for tablet use and nothing comes close to the feel of an iPad, so the Air 2 is a no brainer. Looking forward to it.

 

[ackmondual]

I've just sold my iPad Air 1 and am waiting for my Air 2 to arrive tomorrow.

I only ever had like 3 tabs open at one time and the refreshing of the tabs is just crippling.
I post to forums a lot, not this one but another that I am very active on. Just opening a second tab to get the URL of an image (for example) to paste into the tab I have open with the forum stuff on, would result in a refresh. Every. Single. Time.
I couldn't care less about a normal web page refreshing, but when I've typed something on a forum, and it has refreshed because I've opened another and found an image, is a complete joke. Anyone saying otherwise is kidding themselves. It's a huge problem and thankfully it has been addressed by adding more RAM to the Air 2.

I was looking to maybe go for the Mini 3 but seeing the lower ram still in there it completely put me off.
I could go for another tablet, but for me, Android is not built for tablet use and nothing comes close to the feel of an iPad, so the Air 2 is a no brainer. Looking forward to it.

I've noticed this on my IpT5, and on my Samsung Galaxy s2, and s4. For my gs2, I was using Internet (Samsung's browser). On my gs4, Chrome. It seems better on a gs4 w/Chrome, but especially on my IpT5 (which I haven't used for forums ever since I got an Android smartphone), I've learned to type in a post and submit it right away. Also, keep responses shorter to hedge your bets.

 

[JoeRito]

No

Nope, I'd like 4gb.

 

[cyb3rdud3]

Nope, I'd like 4gb.

I raise you with 8GB

 

[posguy99]

Was just trying to make a simple forum post elsewhere with 4 Safari tabs open on my iPad Air (1st Gen) and boy was it a pain?

Not to distract anyone from the requisite Apple-bashing, but that's a silly workflow, no matter how much RAM the device has.

In what universe is writing the "post" in a real editor not a better idea?

 

[unplugme71]

My other phone has 32GB of memory. I wouldn't replace it with anything less as it runs a few VM's and well, Skype

Unless you are referring to my work phone which has over 200GB of memory and 4 or 8 physical CPUs

 

[Count Blah]

Totally missing the point and ignoring how you insult everyone and slanderously accuse them of lying. So you are saying you were just a little bit of a drama queen.

Of course it can happen at times, nobody will deny that. It just all depends on many many many different factors. And you know what it can even happen with 2, 4, 8GB of ram

I hear "1-gig is enough", "there are no problems", "YOU have a busted Air, it works perfectly", etc... All the time. So forgive me for being defensive about this.

There are lots of people who have problem with 1-gig of ram on the air., including myself. So I personally am not buying another 1-gig of RAM iOS device.

 

[sanke1]

My other phone has 32GB of memory. I wouldn't replace it with anything less as it runs a few VM's and well, Skype

Unless you are referring to my work phone which has over 200GB of memory and 4 or 8 physical CPUs

I sense some high quality hash in here!

 

[technosix]

I would buy as the 1GB RAM has not been an issue for me.

I agree, mine functions well and despite the bugs and many annoyances of iOS 8, I do trust Apple R&D. There's no perfect smartphone, nor am I looking for one. It's simply a matter of finding one that suits my needs. iPhone 6 is close enough.

 

[saintforlife]

Not to distract anyone from the requisite Apple-bashing, but that's a silly workflow, no matter how much RAM the device has.

In what universe is writing the "post" in a real editor not a better idea?

Are you trolling? For real?

When I see an interesting article online and want to post about it on a forum, I basically want to copy and paste three things from that webpage into the forum post: 1) Subject, 2) Few lines of text for quoting, and 3) the URL. But the iPad Air with it's constant reloading doesn't even allowe me to copy and paste three simple things. How this a silly work flow? It is what a pay normal person would do. I'd like to hear how you would go about doing this, because copying everything into an 'editor' app like you say and then pasting it one by one into the forum post is not intuitive at all.

 

[GGJstudios]

My other phone has 32GB of memory. I wouldn't replace it with anything less as it runs a few VM's and well, Skype

Unless you are referring to my work phone which has over 200GB of memory and 4 or 8 physical CPUs

The discussion is about RAM, not flash storage. There's a difference.

 

[cyb3rdud3]

The discussion is about RAM, not flash storage. There's a difference.

He is talking about RAM. I've preorder my huneauhochin with 24GB of RAM and 1GB of storage for Apps as I just move them to my 1TB micro sd card. That should get me to have five tabs open

 

[GGJstudios]

He is talking about RAM.

No, he's not. There's no phone with 32GB or 200GB of RAM. He's talking about storage capacity, which is not RAM.

 

[sanke1]

No, he's not. There's no phone with 32GB or 200GB of RAM. He's talking about storage capacity, which is not RAM.

Don't be silly. He's just high.

 

[MikeAK]

Not a chance. Two years ago I might have said yes but that was a long time ago. Sure, everyone has different uses and not everyone will experience the same with every device but I think it's laughable for apple to not have 2gb, or even 3gb, as standard on all mobile devices.

 

[Maziar]

I have a 6 plus and don't have a problem with having "only" 1GB of RAM.I've also played with an air 2 for a day and while it "felt" faster,it didn't ruin my experience with 6 plus.
Of course,having more RAM is better but it's not a deal breaker for me(at least for now)

 

[kazmac]

Nope. If I could go back to my trigger finger happy self, I would have said, Self wait for iP6s or whenever these phones/iPads have 2gb of ram.

That said, the software needs to be tested more too. I'd rather not go through iOS 8 blahs again.

 

[s2mikey]

I've just sold my iPad Air 1 and am waiting for my Air 2 to arrive tomorrow.

I only ever had like 3 tabs open at one time and the refreshing of the tabs is just crippling.
I post to forums a lot, not this one but another that I am very active on. Just opening a second tab to get the URL of an image (for example) to paste into the tab I have open with the forum stuff on, would result in a refresh. Every. Single. Time.
I couldn't care less about a normal web page refreshing, but when I've typed something on a forum, and it has refreshed because I've opened another and found an image, is a complete joke. Anyone saying otherwise is kidding themselves. It's a huge problem and thankfully it has been addressed by adding more RAM to the Air 2.

I was looking to maybe go for the Mini 3 but seeing the lower ram still in there it completely put me off.
I could go for another tablet, but for me, Android is not built for tablet use and nothing comes close to the feel of an iPad, so the Air 2 is a no brainer. Looking forward to it.

I get that you have had issues but to say that anyone not experiencing this is kidding themselves is kind of lame. Not everyone is experiencing it. It depends on a lot of factors such as Internet speeds, what else you have running, how many tabs, and of course which sites you are actively working with.

Some of us only work a few tabs opened and don't see this at all. That's a fact. I've had maybe 3 tabs opened at the most and never had an issue. Very often Im on this site and maybe one other one doing something. So my use case doesn't show the refresh problem.

And I'm not kidding.

 

[Aneres11]

I get that you have had issues but to say that anyone not experiencing this is kidding themselves is kind of lame. Not everyone is experiencing it. It depends on a lot of factors such as Internet speeds, what else you have running, how many tabs, and of course which sites you are actively working with.

Some of us only work a few tabs opened and don't see this at all. That's a fact. I've had maybe 3 tabs opened at the most and never had an issue. Very often Im on this site and maybe one other one doing something. So my use case doesn't show the refresh problem.

And I'm not kidding.

Yeah. The bolded part is because as I already said, I only ever really have 2 open at a time. I also have the fastest internet speed the UK offers and live in an rea where there is no slow down. I sit next to the router when I do the majority of my browsing.
These are null points. The fact that the device only has 1gb RAM means that there is a problem with wesites refreshing. Whilst it may not trouble you, it troubles me.
As a heavy forum user, liking to write longer posts, it is completely crippling. And I shouldn't have to write them elsewhere to paste them in as others have suggested.

I'm sure once other people who don't think it is a problem now, move to a device with more than 1gb, it'll be the best thing ever.

 

[cyb3rdud3]

It is not just a case of how many websites you have open, but also how those sites are build, what refresh is happening, what session timeouts have been set, what focus timeouts have been set, lots and lots of factors that could influence and trigger a reload.

Regardless of the fastest of connections or how many tabs you have open.

And in some of those cases more memory really isn't going to help at all. And in other cases it might.


I'm sure that sometime soon we have the complaints that 4gb isn't enough.

 

[TacticalDesire]

It's the reason I skipped out on the Mini 3. iOS devices have been stuck on 1gb since 2012 when 2gb was already becoming the standard back then. The situation is worse now. Yes the devices themselves work fine but multitasking and especially web browsing are still a problem. People can deny the issue but that doesn't mean the issue doesn't exist.

 

[SHirsch999]

Was just trying to make a simple forum post elsewhere with 4 Safari tabs open on my iPad Air (1st Gen) and boy was it a pain? I'd enter the subject for my thread, then come back to the other tab to copy a few lines of text and then went back to my post, boom....refresh. Had to type the subject all over again. Then I pasted the text, and hoped that when I switch tabs again to copy the URL link it won't refresh again. I was wrong. I ended up composing my entire post (subject, body, link) in the Notes tab and they copy pasted everything. What a horrible user experience. iPad as a laptop replacement my a**. This is BS.

Id have to say it's not too likely. I already own the most up to date iPhone and iPad, so it's pretty likely all of the flagship devices will have 2GB before I am ready to upgrade.

 

[ggibson913]

I haven't haven't noticed any slowdowns in my original iPad Air. I was actually thinking that I can wait two upgrade cycles this time on that. If the amount of RAM and shear hardware stats are what is important to you then you should honestly switch to Android.

1 GB of RAM doesn't bother me because Apple tests all their apps and they all will work. I don't need an instant screen refresh when browsing the web, I can't really tell the difference between my 1080p iPhone 6 Plus and a 2160p phone in real world usage (though I know there is one).

A clean user experience is what is most important for me and as long as that is maintained as well as Apple has maintained it, I am happy with my meager 1 GB of RAM.