I have narrowed my choices down to two tablets, and one comes with 1GB and the other comes with 2GB, and the 1GB is 30% cheaper than the 2GB one.

Things I do

Social Media
YouTube
Normal surfing
Watching movie clips

Things I do NOT do

Games
CAD
Any heavy duty
Gambling
Lottery

2GB is ALWAYS better than 1GB.
but maybe the cheaper device has a free slot for more ram, and maybe the price difference would buy you more than another GB?

Yup: 1G might VERY possibly end up 'feeling UNuse-able' (videos etc)!
Can you tell us more about the -model-? (touchscreen/wifi compatibility)

I'm somewhat careful about buying cheap tablets. Personally and professionally. I bought a good one and a family member wanted one so they bought a cheap one and it was horrible, we returned it given that there was a return policy. That actually was an online purchase and it was a small amount of money, but Amazon had to be contacted to make a judgement and get the money returned. It took a long time, such as we got the tablet, returned it within a week, between ordering, returning, and verification that it was returned was less than a month and it took about 3+ months to resolve.

The problems were that the WIFI was very poor performing and the battery literally lasted about 3 hours whereas the one I had lasted all day without coming close to being drained.

At work we purchased a great deal of them because some clients wished us to create a system solution and configure the tablets as part of that. They actually did the shopping for tablets, and kept going lower and lower and lower, I got sent about 8 links per day, "Look at these!" So they got 20 of the cheapest of the cheap, someone here warned that it might not be advisable. They got "tablets", no cables, no charging adapters, they all had "Refurbished" on the screen plastic overwrap. Three of the screens were damaged, two or three of them did not power up, ever. We had to shove them all in a box and send them to the client who had to deal with what to do with them, eventually they sent us 20 much nicer tablets that were a brand name and all brand new.

Once I got a smart phone, I had no need for the tablet.

Sorry for the length. Usually more memory is better. I agree with Jjanel that you should share the model information to get some better feedback.

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2GB.

You wouldn't believe how much space apps take up. Google Docs was 400GB last time I checked.

I guess it may be possible to try the 1G and use a fast swap area to make up for any missing ram? The window manager choice would affect your usability in this greatly.

Dunno ... try to anticipate how much RAM you are actually going to use, for what you actually plan to do.

Also, carefully consider how easy (or, how difficult) it will be to move files onto and off of the device.

You don't say "30% of what," but I admit that I am rather a cheap-skate when it comes to such things. There is, after all, no technical requirement for such a price-differential between the two units. "Chips are cheap."

There is no such thing as too much RAM.

if you mean resource-wise, the differences won't be noticeable.
unless you meant something like "the choice of a plain window manager environment compared to a fullblown desktop environment".

but without getting some more detail from op, we can go on discussing thin air forever... which we'll probably do...

Choice of Window Managers and Desktop Environments would be more correctly stated.

A review at Distrowatch last year found the only desktop that gave full support for touch-screens was Gnome. 64-bit Gnome really needs 2 GB.

These also look useful
http://www.techradar.com/news/softwa...e-from-1162825
http://www.linux-arm.info/index.php/tablet

If the specification is that low then it's just landfil in a few weeks, is my opinion.
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ts-4175550787/

the HTML5 video player will not work right with 1GB of ram the audio will be out of sync with the video