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Browser Comparison Between Original iPad and iPad 2

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TiPb offers this nice comparison video showing the improvements in the iPad 2 web browser over the original iPad. The original iPad came with only 256MB of RAM as compared to 512MB found in the iPhone 4. This relative lack of ram was considered one of the reasons why the original iPad's browser would have to completely reload pages when moving from one page to another.

As shown in the video, the new iPad 2 is able to cache these additional pages so you can jump back and forth without delay. The new iPad 2 also seems to scroll/redraw each page faster than the original iPads as well. Note that the video's narrator speculates that the iPad 2 may have 512MB or 1GB of ram, but based on software testing, we know the iPad has 512MB of ram, same as the iPhone 4.

Besides additional RAM, the iPad 2 also has an improved dual-core A5 processor as compared to the original iPad's single-core A4.

Article Link: Browser Comparison Between Original iPad and iPad 2
 
Article Link
https://www.macrumors.com/2011/03/12/browser-comparison-between-original-ipad-and-ipad-2/
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No checkerboard effect

That does look impressive. Not concerned about the reloading tabs as I use atomic and I haven't seen that happen but no checkerboard effect is a great improvement :D
 
I'm sure the lack of was done on purpose. Look, these tablets are not even upgradable except if you look at a possible SD card slots. But other than that, nada. So if you want to keep selling them things iteration after iteration you have to go slow.
 
Haha... the guy made a statement in the beginning and was taken by surprise when iPad1 did cache the pages..... :D
 
Kahnyl said:
Why does the screen on the 2 look shorter than the 1 in this?
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It's dark so we can't see how the iPads are positioned. I imagine (I don't have one of each for comparison :D ) that the differing backs of the two devices and the relative thickness of the iPad 1 makes its screen look a tiny bit closer than the iPad 2 and therefore slightly larger in a sort of optical illusion.

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If the iPad 1 were tilted towards us in comparison to the iPad 2 this would also have the effect of making its screen look larger.
 
What's more interesting here is the quality of the screen. Could anyone do some more comparisons? Black levels, etc?
 
I am glad that the refresh problem is apparently solved. It was one of the reasons I sold my iPad. Now I will be getting an iPad 2 as soon as it becomes available here in Germany.
 
Is the iPad 1 jailbroken? The menubar seems to be showing ram available and another icon next to the rotation lock?
 
InteriorDEV said:
4.2.1 on iPad 1, 4.3 on iPad 2
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Than the comparison is not fair in my opinion. The javascript rendering speed was improved in iOS 4.3.

In the youtube comments some people state that he might have his iPad 1 jailbroken, in that case it is double unfair.
 
512 MB of RAM is still pretty chintzy. Come on Apple, spend the extra few bucks wholesale to give us a product that won't be outdated in 6 months!
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)

caf9128 said:
512 MB of RAM is still pretty chintzy. Come on Apple, spend the extra few bucks wholesale to give us a product that won't be outdated in 6 months!
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You have a point, but iPad 2's extra RAM should go a very long way to improving apps and user experience. Not to mention it ought to save people some $$$ as Safari cuts back on page reloads.

Personally I think it was a mistake to release iPad 1 with less RAM than the iPhone 4. This release however puts the iPad 2 on a new footing giving developers vastly more resources to build upon. We will likely start seeing iPad 2 only apps real soon.
 
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