I was complaining in July that my iPad was too slow. Still, I wanted to wait a few months, just in case this mythical iPad upgrade could happen before the seemingly annual cycle falling in the first three months on the year. I was right. A performance-bumped and new-connector-based iPad replaced the “new iPad” today. And that’s what I got.
Oh, and the screen is amazingly beautiful compared to the original iPad. And the processor is roughly 3.7 times faster, per core, so effectively over 7 times faster. Also, 4 times the RAM, my primary issue with the original iPad. What I’m using right now just flies.
Of course, new users that start using iPad using this one wont be necessarily that impressed. We do notice large changes in speeds much better than gradual ones, especially for something you’ve use almost daily for two years. Still, I was expecting Moore’s Law kinds of speed increases, not something twice it. Never before a two-year difference was so drastic in a device family. Maybe. I suspect the upgrade from the almost 3-year old MacBook Pro to the latest models will be almost as drastic.
Published on November 2, 2012 at 22:07 EDT
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