Thread: Tablet 8GB vs 16GB
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Old 02-29-2012, 01:26 PM   #2
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No idea until someone compares them back to back. My guess is, not likely. Most tablet applications don't load all that much in to memory anyway. What you will likely notice is you aren't able to have as many recent apps that are still resident in memory. So with 1GB of memory you might have a dozen small apps loaded in memory at any given time, plus the core OS elements. With 512MB you might only manage 4 or 5 small apps and if you are switching between a whole slew, or go to reopen one that you had open a couple of hours and 5 or 6 "apps ago", it'll take longer to load as it has to unload something from memory and load something back in to memory.

So app performance itself, not likely to be impact with maybe the exception of some really humongous memory hogs (in which case there may be a lot more loading time between levels or something as it has to unload and load up stuff). App loading time you'll probably notice some impact if you use a lot of apps frequently.
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