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Re: iPhone 6 Plus Teardown

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Post by hack4supper »

For those standing right now in the line up to pick this up at the local Apple Retail Store, if you didn't already know, its got 1GB ram. I had hoped at least time it would be 2GB ram, but alas. As the iPhone 4s will struggle running iOS8 in the same manner this model will struggle running future iOS versions maybe iOS 10 or later.

Re: iPhone 6 Plus Teardown

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

hack4supper wrote: post #3

For those standing right now in the line up to pick this up at the local Apple Retail Store, if you didn't already know, its got 1GB ram. I had hoped at least time it would be 2GB ram, but alas. As the iPhone 4s will struggle running iOS8 in the same manner this model will struggle running future iOS versions maybe iOS 10 or later.

    2011 iPhone 4s iOS 5
    2012 iPhone 5  iOS 6
    2013 iPhone 5s iOS 7
    2014 iPhone 6  iOS 8
which suggests that it'll be iOS 11 that the iPhone 6 starts struggling with. That said, I expect you'll have more trouble with the 6 Plus because it's trying to push more pixels around with the same hardware.

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Post by nemothekid »

Pretty amazing that what look likes 80% of the device innards is composed of the battery. The MoBo/SoC is relatively tiny - it looks like you could fit the thing in a smaller space than the RaspberryPi.

Re: iPhone 6 Plus Teardown

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Post by InclinedPlane »

nemothekid wrote: post #5

Pretty amazing that what look likes 80% of the device innards is composed of the battery. The MoBo/SoC is relatively tiny - it looks like you could fit the thing in a smaller space than the RaspberryPi.

That's typical, the RaspberryPi isn't exactly optimized for size, as it has a huge number of GPIO pins, for example, and is also designed for low cost of manufacture.

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Post by frarrgraaw »

nemothekid wrote: post #5

Pretty amazing that what look likes 80% of the device innards is composed of the battery. The MoBo/SoC is relatively tiny - it looks like you could fit the thing in a smaller space than the RaspberryPi.

I find it a tragic that such an efficient, powerful, portable computer is so locked down hindered that it will only ever be used as a phone. I so desperately want to be able to use cost/power efficient computers for desktop use. I waste so much electricity using this hulking tower where I don't need to use it to it's full potential 99% of the time.

Re: iPhone 6 Plus Teardown

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Post by laichzeit0 »

frarrgraaw wrote: post #7
nemothekid wrote: post #5

Pretty amazing that what look likes 80% of the device innards is composed of the battery. The MoBo/SoC is relatively tiny - it looks like you could fit the thing in a smaller space than the RaspberryPi.

I find it a tragic that such an efficient, powerful, portable computer is so locked down hindered that it will only ever be used as a phone. I so desperately want to be able to use cost/power efficient computers for desktop use. I waste so much electricity using this hulking tower where I don't need to use it to it's full potential 99% of the time.

Do people really only use these things to "phone"? I spend probably 1% of my time on my mobile actually _phoning_ people. I wonder if this can't be generalized to a lot of other people. If it couldn't make any GSM calls it would only slightly inconvenience me.
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