Rumor: iPad2 has only 256MB of RAM? Same as iPad 1?

[alee]

Obviously I can't have this conversation with you if you're going to pick a fight over semantics.

Apple doesn't care about this thread, how many cores the competition has, or how much RAM the competition is putting into the device. If they did, the Macbook Pro would have a higher res screen, iOS would have a real notification system by now, and there would be true multitasking. They'd be putting 4GB of RAM in the iPad, and put out an iPhone with a physical keyboard.

Apple does care if the consumer sees a new shiny object in the store and thinks there's a good reason to buy it over an Apple product.

Consumer marketing and product strategy are related, but have two separate intents. Don't confuse them.

 

[alee]

I do think Google needs to get it's act together on making tablet specific apps easily found.

This is my biggest Honeycomb complaint right now. The average consumer will go into the Android Market, say WTF, and return their Xoom inside of the 30 day window. That's no good.

 

[Air Force One]

Obviously I can't have this conversation with you if you're going to pick a fight over semantics.

Well it's not much of a conversation if you cannot stay on topic.

 

[Air Force One]

This is my biggest Honeycomb complaint right now. The average consumer will go into the Android Market, say WTF, and return their Xoom inside of the 30 day window. That's no good.

Apple fans have been saying this since the first Android device launched. Android will overtake iPad(iOS) in the long-run, regardless of Android's growing pains. A less than user-friendly Market has not stopped Android fro overtaking iOS. Apple/iOS's future is being number #2 behind Android. I don;t say that as a fanboy, but just looking at the math.

 

[erzhik]

I seriously doubt that Apple would leave it with 256mb, makes no sense whatsoever. Most likely 512mb, can't be 1GB since they would be advertising it like all other specs.

If it is in fact 256mb, I would love to see some reviews to see the effect.

 

[anon(52425)]

Give me 2 pair, I need 2 pair, so I can get to stompin' in my Air Force Ones...

 

[Air Force One]

Give me 2 pair, I need 2 pair, so I can get to stompin' in my Air Force Ones...

Just for the record I am not a fan of Nelly

 

[Air Force One]

alee and Xm_jdm, I have no ill will towards either of you It's not very often we have days like today in the gadget world so I'm just being difficult and having some fun, but I mean well and really do respect your decisions and opinion even if I vociferously disagree.

 

[anon(52425)]

Just for the record I am not a fan of Nelly

That's cool. I saw your name and had to relive 2002 and listen to the song again.

 

[anon(52425)]

alee and Xm_jdm, I have no ill will towards either of you It's not very often we have days like today in the gadget world so I'm just being difficult and having some fun, but I mean well and really do respect your decisions and opinion even if I vociferously disagree.

We're good! It's been a good day for debate.

 

[Air Force One]

We're good! It's been a good day for debate.

Cool. If I'm being 100% honest had Apple come out with a high res display in iPad 2 today, I would be having a very difficult decision to make.

 

[daiden]

It has 512mb of RAM.

 

[Low023]

It has 512mb of RAM.

I would love to see your source, but, even if it does It would be 512mb shy of the Xoom.

 

[KoukiFC3S]

512MB isn't enough. My iphone 4 still had to reload pages when I had more than 4 tabs open.

 

[original00]

Why does it matter if it has 256 or 512mb? We have become so enamored with specs that we fail to see the true picture and ask the real question "How does it work?" The ipad worked fine with 256 and 1ghz, why would you think they would need 1GB of memory? Things like dual core, camera mp, retina display are just marketing terms to sell a product and often do not tell whole truth about performance. Why would people say that the zoom's screen is not that much better (some say even worse) than the lower speced ipad screen? Apple is also often not trying to do ALL the things android is at once so they get the right specs for their OS and it just works!

 

[anon(167668)]

The people who think the Xoom's screen is worse are the ones who fall for Apple's "vibrant" displays. They up the color temperature and make everything look unnaturally vibrant. The Xoom's "washed out" look is just it producing more accurate colors.

 

[hypocaffeinemia#AC]

Why does it matter if it has 256 or 512mb? We have become so enamored with specs that we fail to see the true picture and ask the real question "How does it work?" The ipad worked fine with 256 and 1ghz, why would you think they would need 1GB of memory? Things like dual core, camera mp, retina display are just marketing terms to sell a product and often do not tell whole truth about performance. Why would people say that the zoom's screen is not that much better (some say even worse) than the lower speced ipad screen? Apple is also often not trying to do ALL the things android is at once so they get the right specs for their OS and it just works!

Because those of us that have followed computing for years know how quickly RAM can become the performance bottleneck when you try to do too much at once.

All the CPU power in the world is irrelevant if you lack appropriate RAM, and doing things like HD movie editing and multitrack sound recording as demonstrated are going to quickly become cumbersome without an increase in RAM. It's not marketing at all.

And the Ipad can be brought to a screeching halt by opening up numerous tabs in its browser and trying to do anything else simultaneously. RAM limitation...

 

[KoukiFC3S]

Why does it matter if it has 256 or 512mb? We have become so enamored with specs that we fail to see the true picture and ask the real question "How does it work?" The ipad worked fine with 256 and 1ghz, why would you think they would need 1GB of memory? Things like dual core, camera mp, retina display are just marketing terms to sell a product and often do not tell whole truth about performance. Why would people say that the zoom's screen is not that much better (some say even worse) than the lower speced ipad screen? Apple is also often not trying to do ALL the things android is at once so they get the right specs for their OS and it just works!

Try opening more than 4 tabs in Safari and you'll understand why more ram is good.
I love my I pad, but I've had that problem ever since it came out.

 

[alent1234]

Try opening more than 4 tabs in Safari and you'll understand why more ram is good.
I love my I pad, but I've had that problem ever since it came out.

doesn't it just need to reload the page once you go back to an unused tab? i use iOS and android and even though android's multitasking is better for some things, i still prefer iOS multi-tasking. except for a few apps there is really no reason to keep an app running in the background using resources if you're not using it