The breakdown will show who knows what here. Plus I never said iOS 6 managed memory better. If it did the we iPad 1 users could get it. Ios6 locks up even more RAM.
I have no quarrel with ars tech just waiting for a breakdown but I will stand by my prediction of 1GB As for robust power user, guess we have different definitions I saw how heated the RAM discussion on macrumors forum got with uncivil postings on the need for a minimum of 1GB and don,t intend to repeat the good points or elicit the flames
Reasonable people can disagree without being disagreeable. When my prediction is validated, you may wish to reevaluate your opinions. No point in arguing
You do a good job in keeping this forum civil and I can easily wait a few weeks to be proven correct or else confess error
Charm
Where to start? Oh, right here....
If it did the we iPad 1 users could get it
Sorry. You apparently don't understand the nature of how applications run in iOS. Because the iPad 1s issue has to do with the APPLICATION size not the OS size or capabilities. A brief primer on the subject to bring you up to speed.
An application under iOS, under most design conditions, loads almost everything into memory when possible. The reason for that is to minimize battery usage. Every time the OS has to go from the disk to RAM it wastes battery power. So if the application size is over 256 megabytes, that means there will be a ton of paging going on that is doing nothing more than eating battery. So if we take into account that the iOS core has to be in memory, that means we are already dealing with less memory and more paging. That is why the iPad 1 had to be shelved for future iOS upgrades. It was simply under powered for the explosion of apps that were to come. Heck you would be better of blaming the iPad users hunger for better apps than blaming Apple.
stand by my prediction of 1GB
Can't blame you for that one. 1GB already has a huge power requirement. Going to 2GB has little benefit to the current iOS or applications on the market and would require even more power.