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The internet is erupting in a chorus of "How much RAM?" but Apple seems to be keeping quiet about that. Maybe we'll find out from an iFixit teardown.
by Hemospectrum 6y ago
The internet is erupting in a chorus of "How much RAM?" but Apple seems to be keeping quiet about that. Maybe we'll find out from an iFixit teardown.
- kevindong 6y agoRAM isn't super relevant to iOS devices. Those devices have always managed to squeeze out far more performance with far less RAM than their competitors.
- Hemospectrum 6y agoFrom what I'm seeing, most of the people asking are artists and musicians, and the apps they use are more RAM-hungry than the OS itself or the bundled Apple apps. However, I'm not sure what specific apps those are. Maybe they're ports from Windows, and their iOS-native competitors can make better use of GPU and ML hardware acceleration APIs, since those seem to be strengths of the A14 SoC.
- tzs 6y agoIt's relevant for browsing with multiple tabs. The more RAM you have, the more you can do in other tabs after switching away from a tab without having that tab reload when you return. It's very annoying if you were somewhere in the middle of a long page, go to look up a few things on other sites, come back, and your original tab reloads and you are back on top.