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Originally Posted by tizmeinnit
any tab running a few apps and Android above will slow down a lot if it only has 1 gig of ram. Even with all the clean ups and whatever 1 gig is just not enough. The Nexus is the only good cheap one with 2 gig the 8 inch Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 has 1.5 gig apparently
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Absolutely not. Amount of RAM has absolutely nothing to do with execution speed.
Running "a few apps" does not consume more RAM. The majority of Android apps use no memory when in the background and only one is ever in the foreground (unless you're using multi-window or PIP).
The Android OS itself barely takes 300-400MB even with bloated Touchwiz on top so a clean, vanilla edition like on the Nexus would use even less. And I can't think of a single app that uses more than 100MB of RAM, even Chrome with 15 tabs open is using less than 50MB.
Android KitKat is specifically designed to run happily on 512MB of RAM.
And perhaps you're forgetting the Galaxy S3. Best selling Android device of its time with broadly similar specs to the Nexus 7 (1.4Ghz quad, 720p display, etc.) and 1GB of RAM. If 1GB made things so terribly slow how come there was no huge outcry from Galaxy S3 owners especially given it has Samsung's memory hungry Touchwiz bloatware on top? How was it easily one of the fastest Android devices of its day?
The only time Android will be affected by too little RAM is if a single application needs more than all the free RAM in the system. Which means a single app using over 700MB on a 1GB device. At which point it will still make no difference to speed, it'll just crash that app and get on with everything else.