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Rumored iPad Mini 4 Rear Shell With iPad Air 2 Design Elements Shown Off in New Video
French site Nowhereelse.fr [Google Translate] today shared a video and some images of what's said to be an early version of the rear casing for the upcoming iPad mini 4.
The aluminum shell closely resembles the shell of the existing iPad mini, but it does include several design elements introduced with the iPad Air 2. There's a single row of larger speaker holes alongside the Lightning port at the bottom of the device, rather than two smaller rows, and the mute switch on the device has been removed and replaced with a microphone hole.

Rumors have suggested the iPad mini 4 will be thinner than the iPad mini 2 and the iPad mini 3, giving it a thickness more akin to the iPad Air 2, but it is difficult to determine the device's possible thickness based on the images that were shared. Along with an iPad Air-style design, an updated iPad mini 4 would likely adopt one of Apple's more recent processors, possibly the A8X in the iPad Air 2 or an A9 processor coming later this year.

There's been little word on when an updated iPad mini might launch, but given Apple's historical fall release schedule for iPads, it's unlikely we will see the iPad mini 4 until the later months of 2015.
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(View all)What can't you do with the current iPad right now due to RAM restrictions? Give three examples.
Ex 1) Tell my friends "I've got two gigs of RAM!"
Ex 2) Divide RAM amount by 2 and get 1 as a result.
Ex 3) Complain about the fact that iPad should have 4GB of RAM.
iPad Mini 4 alongisde the iPad Air 3 at the launch of iPhone 6S and a revamped iMac 5k?
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If Apple does not put in 2GB of RAM, then they shouldnt even bother with it.
And as soon as they do, you'll come out saying that 4GB is what they should've put in.
What can't you do with the current iPad right now due to RAM restrictions? Give three examples.
More RAM is akin to a bigger gas tank.... would you rather a car engine that was super-efficient, or one with a giant gas tank? Apple strives for super efficient.
(yah, I know RAM-to-gas tank comparison is not the best... but you get the point... bigger specs does not always mean better... because software just gets more bloated and requires higher specs, and on it goes... never being happy)
I can't keep up with these product releases... they all become a blur.
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And as soon as they do, you'll come out saying that 4GB is what they should've put in.
What can't you do with the current iPad right now due to RAM restrictions? Give three examples.
2. Multitask well.
3. Run any number of advanced apps
More RAM is akin to a bigger gas tank.... would you rather a car engine that was super-efficient, or one with a giant gas tank? Apple strives for super efficient.
(yah, I know RAM-to-gas tank comparison is not the best... but you get the point... bigger specs does not always mean better... because software just gets more bloated and requires higher specs, and on it goes... never being happy)
If Apple does not put in 2GB of RAM, then they shouldnt even bother with it.
I'm tired of Safari having to reload pages every time I switch to it but the interface has hires snapshots of (out of date) screen captures when I go to switch apps. Aren't those snapshots eating up the RAM? And what's the point of them if they're not very current (sometimes they seem hours, if not days, old)? At a minimum, couldn't it cache some of the Safari pages to to 64GB of storage, I don't understand why it has to reload all the time (it didn't used to have to, did it).
Gary
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