how to reset RAM

You can empty the taskbar of apps - but the iPad will manage its memory such that it shouldn't be necessary. But if you want to : double-click the home button to bring up the taskbar, then press and hold any of the icons until they start shaking, and press the minus symbol in the top left corner of those that you want to close; press the home button when you've finished. Note that the taskbar shows recently opened apps as well as those that are 'active', so just because an app appears in it doesn't mean that it's using any resources.

Hi Raphael,

There is no way to interact directly with the memory on the iPad and do things like you suggest. The iPad only has a 1 GHz cpu and 256 MB or ram. The memory management part of iOS handles everything.

If you are using iOS 4.2.1, go to the multitasking bar, tap the home button twice, and terminate all apps. Apps fall into three categories: "recents" that are not running at all, suspended or sleeping, and running in the background. The latter are the ones that will affect your available memory and cpu. So if you are concerned about memory, terminate all apps that appear on the multitasking bar.

Other approach is to power cycle, turn off then back on, the iPad. That will stop anything running and free all memory and cpu.

Ralph

You are welcome, enjoy your iPad, great machine.

Raphael,

If you are interested in everything you never wanted to know about printing, there is a discussion thread:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=268560&tsart=0

written by an HP employee that explains all about AirPrint. Depends on how much you really want to know about printing from an iPad 🙂

Ralph