Apple A6: built for app switching

I know you i5 owners probably noticed by now, there is zero lag and instantaneous app switching with the new iPhone 5's A6 processor. I know apple must of designed this chip to allow for instant app switching because unlike my ipad 3, ipad 2, and my wife's old iphone 4S, the app switching would be delayed for a second or three depending on memory. You would notice on the non A6 devices that there is lag evident between switching any app.

If they put this A6 design in an ipad 4, my gosh, the thing will fly. I'm absolutely delighted with the performance of the iphone 5; so much I am finding myself using the iphone 5 more so than my ipad 3!

But you can't give up the ipad 3 retina screen size and resolution; it's just so good. If only the new ipad will have this sort of iphone 5 performance, I'm going to be extremely happy.

 

That's very true; the ipad 3 also has 1GB of ram but still, it lags! A6 is genuinely state of the art performance!

 

damn, apple did it - didn't expect it was done in 6 months time, however!

The ipad 4 will be outstanding performance. You will see when the reviews come in, nothing from the competitor side will come close to the graphics and processing power of this new ipad 4. Right now the big hoopla is over the ipad mini because it's new but when the ipad 4 is reviewed, you can bet people will pay attention.

There was just too many updated products unveiled 10/23 - so much to the point everything that was great was just blurred by the ipad mini. The new imac is incredible, the new ipad 4 will be incredible, the new macbook 13 retina is great, but everyone loves to talk down about an ipad mini!

 

Incorrect. All core animation uses the gpu. So essentially every single app on the iPhone sees the improvements in the A6 3core gpu. Aside from the system services themselves using the A6, even app loading times are all benefited from the A6.

Games and web rendering all benefit from the A6. With the bigger battery from the iPad 4, you can almost bet the A6X will scale up even higher performance than an iPhone 5.

That's why this iPad 4th gen is significant as an upgrade because the iPad 3 should've had an A6X!