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Re:Announcing the Surface 3 by dman on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @10:29AM (#9296410)
How much RAM does the Ipad have?
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Re:Announcing the Surface 3 by mikeash on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @10:56AM (#9296624)
Current iPads have 1GB of RAM. They also constantly evict background applications and even backgrounded tabs in the web browser. Switching browser tabs on iOS is always a gamble as to whether it'll reload the page or not. This makes it impossible to, for example, write a comment in one tab while referencing some material in a different one with any kind of reliability.

iOS is extremely memory efficient but it comes at a cost which can be quite high for some.

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Re:Announcing the Surface 3 by ZanyProgrammer on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @11:07AM (#9296725)
The iPad Air 2 is the first iOS device with 2 GB of RAM, I believe.
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Re:Announcing the Surface 3 by mikeash on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @11:28AM (#9296941)
Whoops, clearly I'm a bit behind the times. Thanks to both of you for the updated info.
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Re:Announcing the Surface 3 by knweiss on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @11:07AM (#9296732)
The iPad Air 2 has 2 GB RAM.
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Re:Announcing the Surface 3 by dagw on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @10:45AM (#9296540)
Does it matter? The normal usage patterns for Windows (and OS X) is very different and requires more RAM than the typical usage patterns on an iOS devices
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