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Somebody stick some RAM in the damn iPad, would you please?
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, 30th August 2010 at 07:14 PM (4048 Views)
The iPad doesn't have enough RAM.
What's the damage, 256MB? Damage being the operative word. My Safari on the Mac will happily chunk off a gig given a few tabs, clearly such a paltry amount of RAM for the whole device isn't going to cut it.
The result? When you've got multiple pages open and you're switching between them they keep refreshing. Now, all you hateful creatures on your 20mbps ADSL or even faster noodle optics from Virgin probably care very little about this. But when you're on 256kbps ADSL or, worse, Vodafone EDGEless GPRS, it makes you want to do nothing more with the iPad than use it to massacre wasps.
It also means any text entered gets lost. If I were to haphazardly flick over to BBC News now, for instance, there's zero chance of this text still being here when I flick back.
Perhaps this is why iOS 4 for iPad is taking such a long time.
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