Thread: Speed Tests
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Sorry for the confusion! iPads are amazing devices, but their processors are at least an order of magnitude slower than the ones in a desktop Mac, and they have far less RAM at their disposal. (You mentioned the amount of free space on the SSD in your email. Unfortunately, that doesn't help us: the iOS platform has no concept of virtual memory.)

We wanted to make sure the documents would open on the device so we made the decision to load a certain number of rows at a time. If OmniOutliner asks for more memory than the device has available it'll be shut down by the OS; it can't be of any use to you if that happens.

I apologize if that's disappointing, but given the limitations of the iPad's hardware, we made the best choices we could from the available options.

If you open the document in question on your Mac, then use Activity Monitor to see how much RAM and virtual memory OmniOutliner is using, it's going to be a much bigger quantity than the iPad (even an iPad 2) will be able to give any one app. The device has less memory to begin with; now give about half that to the OS. Now give some some to any other applications that are running in the background; OmniOutliner will end up with a *portion* of the remaining RAM.

You should be able to find ways to make the new device useful in your workflows, but you can't start from the assumption that it's interchangeable with your Mac. The two platforms are simply different. I do hope that helps make things more understandable.