Haven't seen this reported anywhere else, if true.
Early unboxing reveals iPad has 1GB RAM - Crave - CNET Asia
Early unboxing reveals iPad has 1GB RAM - Crave - CNET Asia
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To me what has sucked is that the iPhone 4 came with 1gb of ram and the iPad 2 only had 512mb of ram! Really Apple!
Mickeylittle said:To me what has sucked is that the iPhone 4 came with 1gb of ram and the iPad 2 only had 512mb of ram! Really Apple!
Glad to see the 1GB RAM finally, now the dual core processor can finally be taken full advantage of!
Skull One said:And how may I ask was the dual core not being fully utilized with only 512MB of RAM?
Lack of RAM was the sole reason for me upgrading from iPad 1 to 2. The 256mb was too limiting, even with core IOS apps such as Safari where if you scrolled too fast you got the checker board effect as the rest of the web page was loaded into memory. This was mostly eradicated on the iPad 2 with twice the RAM. IOS works well with a small amount of RAM but if you then try to run an intensive app, the lack of RAM can become all too obvious.
I can crash Dolphin browser pretty easy if I open too many tabs on my just sold iPad2. I was actually kind of surprised when I looked at the crash reports in settings menu. Either Dolphin browser sux or i'm hitting RAM limits. But at the end of the day, I'm hardly complaining and eagerly awaiting my "new" ipad on Friday
Depends on the task at hand. The dual core CPU allows for better multitasking or for things like editing 1080p video but less ram limits the number of program's running at the same time or how much video footage can be processed.
Skull One said:Now I see your misconception.
1) Better multitasking has NOTHING to do with the amount of RAM. Please go research PCs that are *nix based (iOS is a *nix based OS) running with less than 128 Meg of RAM that have full HTTPD, FTPD, SMTP, POP3 and other internet based services running that can handle 50 to 100 users at once.
2) 1080P video editing can be done in 512MB of RAM as long as the flash drive read and write times are fast enough to keep up with demand. Increasing RAM to 1GB is NOT going to make that much of a difference considering that the extra 512MB can only hold between 1 to 3 minutes of extra full motion video.
3) Since the user can only work on 1 program at a time, due to the limit of the touch screen input, any remaining tasks in background are simply going to sit there unless they register certain API calls for background tasking. The number of apps that do this are VERY LOW since Apple vettes these apps and require justification for background processing. And since ALL iOS apps have code stubs for dealing with saving their current state when paused, in case the program is rolled out of memory, this allows a full state restore when the users relaunches the app. iOS is designed to run in 256MB and still be able to do the same job.
Oh wait... iPad 1 has 256MB of RAM and iOS 5.1 runs on it. Amazing isn't it?