A Year with the Surface Go

Re:A Year with the Surface Go by wlesieutre on Saturday January 25, 2020 @09:51PM (#22150084)

I know there are situations where a "real" desktop OS is helpful, but at the same time it's remarkable to me how well my 2016 iPad Pro holds up with only 2 GB of RAM.

The 2015 model actually had 4 GB, but that was a 12.9" screen and substantially pricier.

They stuck with the same 4 GB in 2018's redesign unless you buy the very expensive 1TB storage option, in which case it's silently bumped up to 6 GB. Apple oddly doesn't even advertise that difference, it only came out through benchmarking.

Hopefully the 2020 refresh bumps it up to 8 GB which I think would future proof new devices for 5+ years of solid performance.

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Re:A Year with the Surface Go by zozbot234 on Sunday January 26, 2020 @07:16AM (#22151712)

Honestly, they just need to get their flash storage supply chain under control, and configure swap memory support for iOS. Or perhaps add a microSD port and let the device swap to a (disposable) microSD card. It's just preposterous that RAM-constrained mobile devices still can't use virtual memory (something that has been known since the 1960s) because of their bottom-of-the-barrel eMMC storage.

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Re:A Year with the Surface Go by jakobegger on Monday January 27, 2020 @02:00AM (#22157362)

At least it puts a limit on how much RAM something can use. VM is always extremely slow, and once your RAM is full performance slows to a crawl...

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Re:A Year with the Surface Go by snalty on Monday January 27, 2020 @04:36AM (#22157999)

I thought apple devices used nvme storage now?

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