Thank you, Peter, for explaining the intricacies of the RAM, memory capacity, and RAM, speed capacity. Your explanation was very helpful and I, who am not a geek but understand computers, appreciate it.
Tanya
On Sep 28, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Peter Sealy wrote:
> Just a clarification.
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> RAM is the 'short term' memory capacity of the device and determines the speed of the device's action such as loading/unloading apps. That is the simplistic definition. Which is why users of large computers [desktops, laptops], in contrast to iGadgets, often increase their RAM capacity to speed up the computer's operation.
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> The 16 GB, 32GB or 64GB size of the iPhone, and iPad etc, is the size of the capacity of the iPhone in terms of how many GB of music, apps, videos, etc you can load onto the phone.
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> The purchaser can decide on the capacity size of the phone before purchase. But the purchaser has no say in the size of the RAM built into the phone. Apple has always been very secretive about the RAM size and if you examine Apple's website for the tech specs of the iPhone you will not find any mention of RAM size. Of course the geeks who take apart, literally and figuratively, the iPhone are able to determine the RAM size. Unlike the larger computers the iPhone's RAM is not expandable.
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