It won't happen. It's taken 4 years to get a 2.2x increase in single core performance between the Core 2 Duo of the 2009 Mac Mini and the Core i7 in the latest Macbook Pro. CPUs arn't increasing in leaps in bounds for single core performance and Quad core systems have been floating around the same 10,000 - 13,000 speeds for at least 2 years now accounting for Hyperthreading. If anything, the iPad/iPhone CPU will start approaching i5 speeds in another 2 years or so.
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iPad Air Benchmarks Reveal 1.4 GHz A7 Processor, 2x Performance Gain Over iPad 4
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It won't happen. It's taken 4 years to get a 2.2x increase in single core performance between the Core 2 Duo of the 2009 Mac Mini and the Core i7 in the latest Macbook Pro. CPUs arn't increasing in leaps in bounds for single core performance and Quad core systems have been floating around the same 10,000 - 13,000 speeds for at least 2 years now accounting for Hyperthreading. If anything, the iPad/iPhone CPU will start approaching i5 speeds in another 2 years or so.
I'm not happy at how fast these expensive devices become outdated.
Yeah, my ipad 3 is totally unusable today! Yesterday it was fine...
iPad Air Benchmarks Reveal 1.4 GHz A7 Processor, 2x Performance Gain Over iPa...
Only 1GB.
That's the only drawback and it's disheartening.
Only 1GB.
That's the only drawback and it's disheartening.
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Are these benchmarks comparable across processor architectures? If they are, then the iPad Air/mini are about as powerful as my core 2 duo MacBook, which is seven years old.
Personally, I call this iterating... But nothing wrong with that... True revolutions don't happen every year. It seems people expect these with every release.
The speed of downloading the bits of the content (HTML, javascript, images, animations) is determined by your internet speed...
but the RENDERING of this content is determined by the speed of your device. The more animations, javascript moving doo-hickeys on the page, large tables, etc., and your ability to scroll and zoom around this content will be faster on an iPad Air vs earlier iPad.
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Yeah, my ipad 3 is totally unusable today! Yesterday it was fine...
Keep your iPad 3 for a while.
I still have an iPad 1. This is finally time for me to upgrade. My iPad 1 is still usable, so I can't imagine how the speeds will affect me. What is my iPad 1 benchmark score, like a 50?
Its seems that the iPad Air has respectable computing power, but still, I cannot use it for any real, actual work. There are very few pro apps which I find compelling enough to make me want the iPad.
This made me realise how different people are in what they demand of their units
.I bought an iPad 1 back when it was released and never really used it at all because it was too slow while browsing compared to the Mac laptop I had back then. I just put it away in the box really.
I started using an iPad instead of my laptop from browsing somewhere when the iPad 4 was released since they were almost neck to neck while browsing.
Battery confusion
I'm having a tough time finding the the MaH capacity specs of the iPad air. I'm confused... didn't Schiller say the iPad air battery was smaller than previous generations and could still get the same 10 hrs because of the performance / economy of the A7?
And if that's true what's with the quote in this article?
"True to Apple's claims, the iPad Air benchmarks about twice as fast as the 4th generation iPad, with the A7 processor found in the new iPad coming in at 100MHz faster than the 1.3 GHz A7 chip found on the iPhone 5s. Poole claims that this is likely due to a number of factors such as a larger battery in the iPad Air that provides more power and a larger chassis that provides better cooling."
I'm having a tough time finding the the MaH capacity specs of the iPad air. I'm confused... didn't Schiller say the iPad air battery was smaller than previous generations and could still get the same 10 hrs because of the performance / economy of the A7?
And if that's true what's with the quote in this article?
"True to Apple's claims, the iPad Air benchmarks about twice as fast as the 4th generation iPad, with the A7 processor found in the new iPad coming in at 100MHz faster than the 1.3 GHz A7 chip found on the iPhone 5s. Poole claims that this is likely due to a number of factors such as a larger battery in the iPad Air that provides more power and a larger chassis that provides better cooling."
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Good heavens. Can't wait to trade up from the existing mini to the new Air.
Good greif that thing is a rocket.
Good greif that thing is a rocket.
My mother in law still uses her first gen iPad, but she's planning on updating to the iPad Air "for the grandkids" so they can run the latest apps! LOL
Sure. For the grandkids.
It wasn't bad. You have to look at it as a comparison of what was out at the time, versus what is out now. Yeah, compared to what is out now it was/is slowER, but not SLOW. Get it? It frustrates me when people say, "OMFG look how SLOOOOW my XYZ device is now!!" Er, uh no. It didn't magically slow down when something new came out.
Great score. I just wish there weren't two next-gen consoles coming out at the same time. Next year I'll upgrade.
Sure, there is a distinction between revolutions & iterations, but both can be innovative.
I don't know the exact specifics with the underlying technologies Apple is using in the iPad Air, but they had to come up with innovative engineering (palm rejection through SW for bezel reduction, 10 hour battery life with smaller battery, etc) in order to make this product.
Doubly so for the retina mini, which has an even smaller chassis to pack all this technology in despite the same chip, retina screen, etc. This goes all the way from the chip design to the casing. And with no fans or moving parts! Its absolutely amazing if you look as whats happened over the past 3 years.
The challenge is always in the trade offs between your design vision and the end product - with these new iOS devices, I'm not sure what Apple traded off. It may "seem" iterative, but its pretty cool what they accomplished.
No yesterday it was sluggish.Yeah, my ipad 3 is totally unusable today! Yesterday it was fine...
I guess its still good enough for reading iBooks. If it just wouldn't be so damn heavy!
Actually 31 months, but still impressive yes.
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They are using the iPad 3 as the basis, and it was introduced 19 months ago. However, like I'm saying earlier, this is not accurate. The iPad 3, just like the iPad mini and iPod Touch after it, and the iPhone 4s before it, all used the A5 chip which was introduced a year before that, so the correct number is 31 months.
Speaking of which. I just had a thought:
Imagine, if you will, a world where Apple waits 6-7 years between iPad generations. Hmmmm, who would wait for that?
"But it's the 'next-gen' iPad!" they'd say.
Got it... that was a slightly confusing paragraph. The first comparison was with the iPad 4th gen. But I see it now, thanks!