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Well-known iOS hacker Chronic studied a debug output from a prototype iPad 3 that was published in early February by BGR. At the bottom, he noticed the line: “vm_page_bootstrap: 244276 free pages and 8396 wired pages.” Using that information, he then calculated that the iPad 3 will have 1 GB of RAM. He writes,
244,276 (pages) x 4,096 bytes (size of a page) = 1,000,554,496 bytes = 1GB (rounded)
This upgrade wouldn’t be surprising. In fact, I’d be surprised if it didn’t get a boost to 1 GB. The original iPad shipped with 256 MB of RAM, while the iPad 2 shipped with 512 MB. The next logical step for the iPad 3 would be 1 GB, an amount that’s already present in most recent Android tablets.
[Via Chronic]
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Kelly Hodgkins
Kelly spent the last four years covering mobile technology at places like BGR, Gizmodo and The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Before writing, she spent a few years working with and teaching others how to use Adobe Flash and Macromedia Director. Even earlier than that, she spent several years as a Ph.D student in Microbiology. When she's not writing, she can be found fishing the lakes and hiking the mountains of Western Maine with her husband and tribe of children. You can follow her on Twitter @kellyhodgkins.
