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I'm curious, why are you concerned about 2gb of ram? What do you plan to do on the iPad that requires more than that?

by hellofunk 8y ago

izacus 8y ago
Browsing the web?
- ceejayoz 8y ago
  I've never once felt like the iPhone browser (mine has 2GB too) lacked RAM.
  - Marsymars 8y ago
    Same here. The lack of Firefox with extensions is by far and away the single biggest pain point I have with web browsing on iOS, 2GB of RAM doesn't even register.
  - kalleboo 8y ago
    On the iPhone it's fine, but my iPads have always been constantly reloading tabs and felt like they cheaped out too much on the RAM (or needed a swap system)
- saagarjha 8y ago
  Yeah, no. 2 GB of RAM is plenty for browsing the web; this isn’t Android where everything less than some absurd number of gigabytes (4? 6?) is useless.
  - Teckla 8y ago
    Maybe I open too many tabs at once, but my 5th gen iPad runs out of RAM while web browsing.
jumbopapa 8y ago
I'm not even sure. I probably wouldn't do anything too extensive. Probably Plex and some light browsing. I just didn't like the idea of limited ram someday causing me issues.
- sosborn 8y ago
  > I just didn't like the idea of limited ram someday causing me issues. Ignore the specs. Try one out and you'll find that it simply isn't an issue in the vast majority of cases. iOS is very good at managing RAM.
  - mrkstu 8y ago
    Where it has been an issue in the past is iOS upgrades- part of the reason that older iPads 'slow down' is the baseline RAM starts to be consumed as the OS gets more resource hungry. Also with the new multitasking features added in recent releases, additional memory becomes a bigger feature add.
    - saagarjha 8y ago
      Apple gates multitasking features by model, so having more RAM is not a feature add in this case since you do not have control over this.
- theshrike79 8y ago
  You can't really measure iOS RAM usage to a PC or Android device. The OS handles memory completely differently. At most you might notice that some memory hungry apps that don't suspend correctly "start over" when switching between multiple apps.
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    > some memory hungry apps that don't suspend correctly "start over" when switching between multiple apps Correction: memory hungry apps that don't implement state restoration correctly.

I'm curious, why are you concerned about 2gb of ram? What do you plan to do on the iPad that requires more than that?

izacus 8y ago

Browsing the web?

ceejayoz 8y ago
I've never once felt like the iPhone browser (mine has 2GB too) lacked RAM.
- Marsymars 8y ago
  Same here. The lack of Firefox with extensions is by far and away the single biggest pain point I have with web browsing on iOS, 2GB of RAM doesn't even register.
- kalleboo 8y ago
  On the iPhone it's fine, but my iPads have always been constantly reloading tabs and felt like they cheaped out too much on the RAM (or needed a swap system)
saagarjha 8y ago
Yeah, no. 2 GB of RAM is plenty for browsing the web; this isn’t Android where everything less than some absurd number of gigabytes (4? 6?) is useless.
- Teckla 8y ago
  Maybe I open too many tabs at once, but my 5th gen iPad runs out of RAM while web browsing.

jumbopapa 8y ago

I'm not even sure. I probably wouldn't do anything too extensive. Probably Plex and some light browsing. I just didn't like the idea of limited ram someday causing me issues.

sosborn 8y ago
> I just didn't like the idea of limited ram someday causing me issues. Ignore the specs. Try one out and you'll find that it simply isn't an issue in the vast majority of cases. iOS is very good at managing RAM.
- mrkstu 8y ago
  Where it has been an issue in the past is iOS upgrades- part of the reason that older iPads 'slow down' is the baseline RAM starts to be consumed as the OS gets more resource hungry. Also with the new multitasking features added in recent releases, additional memory becomes a bigger feature add.
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    Apple gates multitasking features by model, so having more RAM is not a feature add in this case since you do not have control over this.
theshrike79 8y ago
You can't really measure iOS RAM usage to a PC or Android device. The OS handles memory completely differently. At most you might notice that some memory hungry apps that don't suspend correctly "start over" when switching between multiple apps.
- saagarjha 8y ago
  > some memory hungry apps that don't suspend correctly "start over" when switching between multiple apps Correction: memory hungry apps that don't implement state restoration correctly.