• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    So yeah, 8GB might be a bit low if you want to do anything more intensive than just lite browsing.

    Don’t all those units have integrated graphics with unified memory? Meaning that 8GB of RAM is shared with the graphics frame buffer. So there’s less than 8GB available to the OS, right?

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      9 hours ago

      Yes but that’s generally true for low end laptops. They may not always have unified memory on a soc in the Intel world but they don’t get a discrete GPU with its own memory.

      The A18 is the previous gen iPhone’s chip. So the target audience is people who could do their work on a phone but want a bigger screen and a keyboard. For people who use the current cheap iPad (A16 with 6 GB) it’ll be an upgrade.