Careful - "serious work" sounds like "true Scotsman". I think you're right that RAM will limit an iOS device's ability to deal with huge chunks of data, but to

Careful - "serious work" sounds like "true Scotsman". I think you're right that RAM will limit an iOS device's ability to deal with huge chunks of data, but to borrow a metaphor, that's increasingly a truck's task. I was going to use the example of large graphics files needing a lot of RAM, but as the design field has gone from print to web, the resolution demands are much less, too. Designers using desktop computers to design print publications are a dying breed.