ewtheckman

macplusplus said:

SSD makes this discussion pointless. One would prefer swapping, because RAM draws power continuously, even when idle, larger RAM draws more power, obviously. More RAM was a requirement of the spinning-plate hard disk era, because swapping on these disks is slow. Even with desktop machines, a PC dealer would suggest a faster hard disk before suggesting RAM upgrade. Upgradable RAM is no longer a solution, because RAM also affects the very delicate thermal balance of the system and some (mostly undocumented) thermal specifics must be considered, which is beyond the capabilities of even the most experienced users. Apple has always been very strict on these issues, including the amount of RAM in iOS devices.

You would think so, but that's not how it actually works out in real life. I used to have "only" 24 GB on my computer. But there where times when I had a lot open because of the work I do. (Cross platform database development.) When that happened, everything would stall for several minutes at a time as I tried to go back and forth between applications. This was a problem even though I'm running a fast SSD for my primary drive. (The data drive is a RAID.) Once I figured out that it was starved for RAM, I upgraded to 48 GB and the stalls went away.

To give you an idea of how starved it was, I reproduced my heaviest use scenario. Total usage was 36 to 38 GB. That is a lot of data to be swapping back and forth.

(Note: I pointed this out before and someone "disliked" it. How the heck can someone "dislike" a simple statement of fact about a real life usage case? That makes no sense.)

macinfish said:

I found a more elegant solution for the car: http://www.scosche.com/iphone-7-car-charger
I've purchased Scosche products in the past and signed up to be notified when this becomes available.

Now that is a slick solution! Thanks for linking to it. 

tallest skil said:

zmas said:

Remember when you could charge your phone and listen to music at the same time?

Remember when no one did that, ever, you fucking shill.

I did that yesterday. In my car. And the day before. And on Sunday when I also used GPS.

Any word on when Apple will restore the features they've stripped?

For example, the removal of support for facing pages from Pages has forced me back to Word.

There is such a thing as too simple, and Apple keeps going there. 

Is it possible to make this article any more biased in its language and tone?

Whatever happened to the ideal of journalism being about reporting the news instead of making it?