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Old 11-12-2011, 06:11
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is 256mb RAM enough for basic web browsing and flash? im still looking for a starter tablet, cant afford huge outlay..feedback appreciated
would just want it for general web browsing and flash games

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Old 11-12-2011, 10:28
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That's pretty low. Flash will probably need more than that to run smoothly.
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Old 11-12-2011, 21:30
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I got the Ainol NOVO 7 Advanced from china for £92

it have 512MB ram & 8GB of flash memory, its great for web browsing and flash games play fine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KSm0FRdNIs
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Old 11-12-2011, 21:45
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I got the Ainol NOVO 7 Advanced from china for £92

it have 512MB ram & 8GB of flash memory, its great for web browsing and flash games play fine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KSm0FRdNIs
that looks great thanks for link
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Old 11-12-2011, 21:46
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That's pretty low. Flash will probably need more than that to run smoothly.
thanks for that i will bear that in mind
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Old 11-12-2011, 23:05
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Some phones have less RAM and they have more overhead.
No doubt Opera Mini does not suffer though multi tabs on other web browsers may struggle.

I imagine most flash games will struggle anyway. Its flash video or info boards that will run if the GPU happens to be better than the one on the iPad 1.
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Old 12-12-2011, 09:36
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There is no constant radio running in the background like a phone so 256mb is fine as long as you use the task manager a lot to close apps but iPlayer etc might stutter. What tablet are you considering? We might be able to tell you about it's performance...

A smaller tablet with have slightly better performance than it's 10.1in variant for example. That's why Tegra 2 phones are faster than Tegra 2 Tablets. There's less pixels (screen resolution) to process.
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