iPad Pro 3rd gen iPad Pro is 4 gb enough

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On a device where they don't advertise RAM specs as an upsell?

I expect there's a technical reason 1TB got more RAM. I do think it got more than was necessary and that even the extra 512MB it would have needed over the lower end models, the storage doesn't require all the time hence, the extra 2GB is more often than not usable by all apps.

For people who actually would consider 1 TB, having 6 GB (even if not advertised) is even more of an incentive to spend the $$$$.

BTW, we’ve been using 1 TB drives with our 4 GB computers for well over a decade now. It’s just that they used to be hard drives and now they are SSDs.

Regardless, the bigger point for me is that it tells developers and us indirectly that 6 GB is the new target for iOS. I take that to mean that for the iPad Pros, we will get 6 GB across the board sooner rather than later.

 

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For people who actually would consider 1 TB, having 6 GB (even if not advertised) is even more of an incentive to spend the $$$$.

BTW, we’ve been using 1 TB drives with our 4 GB computers for well over a decade now. It’s just that they used to be hard drives and now they are SSDs.

Regardless, the bigger point for me is that it tells developers and us indirectly that 6 GB is the new target for iOS. I take that to mean that for the iPad Pros, we will get 6 GB across the board sooner rather than later.

Lol, over a decade ago, I built a 12TB file server with 4GB RAM. For its use-case (shared parity-protected dumb storage), that was more than enough.

Meanwhile, my 1TB SSDs have their own dedicated 1GB DRAM built-in. The 4TB SSDs have 4GB. That's the manufacturer's decision not mine, and I'm guessing they don't do it out of generosity and the goodness of their hearts.

Yes, HDDs and SSDs are both storage but how they work is a bit different.

Granted, developers have more leeway with 6GB and apps can certainly make use of it now. However, it's in the developers' best interests to optimize their apps so they don't run like complete crap on devices which only have 3-4GB RAM. I expect whether 4GB will be rendered insufficient so quickly depends on the tasks and content one needs to work on.