Close to your desktop? Come on, how could you realistically expect that from a tablet?
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
iPad 2 Browser speed comparo
- Thread starter iPadThai
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Close to your desktop? Come on, how could you realistically expect that from a tablet?
Of course I would! Why wouldn't I? If I need another slow web browsing experience, I would not pay $500 for such a device. Sure you can do alot more with the iPad but 80% of my needs revolve around a web browser so yes, I'd like that in the next iPad revision.
That's only looking at one factor- JavaScript performance- which isn't even the biggest factor in web page rendering speeds for many sites. I think you'll find web browsing rendering speed (overall- including element rendering, DHTML performance, etc) to be quite good on the iPad 2.
But just look at the specs. You're comparing quad core desktop processors with all sorts of fans cooling them down, that need a huge power supply with 512MB - 1GB of Video and 4GB+ of RAM with a tablet? Wouldn't you think you would need similar specs to get similar performance?
And really, you can get that kind of speed out of a mobile device...a laptop.
And really, you can get that kind of speed out of a mobile device...a laptop.
No, that's not accurate. It's 1.6 times faster running a single benchmark related to JavaScript performance. Frankly we won't know how much quicker it is in the real world until reviews come out but from what I've seen it could be a fair bit quicker and the subjective experience could be substantially improved.
Have a little patience folks, answers will come soon enough but right now everyone is guestimating at best.
I just put 4.3 on my iPad1 and yes it's faster but it's not blazing fast. I ran some tests against my Galaxy S on the same WiFi network and the only time the iPad won was when the Galaxy S was loading a flash heavy page. I re did all the tests with flash off and the Galaxy S won every time by a good few seconds. It still is a nice improvement but I feel that Androids Chrome is faster in my experience.
Sorry but don't jump to conclusions. Those figures are pure JavaScript performance. The iPad 2 will be faster in overall rendering (where 4.3 does nothing except increase JavaScript performance). I love how people like to use numbers in whatever way they think works for their argument. Let's wait until it's released and we have realworld comparisons done.
I do have to agree with an earlier poster about how weak it was that engadget wasting there time in that video showing the stupid photobooth app. I want to see more realworld safari performance. Oh well we'll see on Friday
Wow if it's truly represented like in this video then we may have an upgrade decision made!!
http://www.apple.com/ipad/guided-tours/#video-safari
http://www.apple.com/ipad/guided-tours/#video-safari
STILL checkerboarding with a dual core???
I dont get it, my Droid x or any android iv tried never checkboards...
I dont get it, my Droid x or any android iv tried never checkboards...
People that are expecting the browsing experience to be as fast as a modern desktop are deluded. A modern desktop PC, especially of tech people like us (Who are likely to have faster computers than that of most people) consumes about 20x the iPad does in power. They are many, many times faster.
This may surprise some people out there, but:
The ipad won't be as fast as your Intel i7 2600 Sandy Bridge with 8GB DDR3 Ram PC until...The ipad has an Intel i7 2600 Sandy Bridge with 8GB Ram
Weird right ?
This may surprise some people out there, but:
The ipad won't be as fast as your Intel i7 2600 Sandy Bridge with 8GB DDR3 Ram PC until...The ipad has an Intel i7 2600 Sandy Bridge with 8GB Ram
Weird right ?
Tried ipad2 at the apple store, and it was pretty darned quick on wi-fi compared to my v1 using ios 4.3.
Question is, will this also translate to being faster on 3G, or will the slower connection nullify any speed advantage?
Thanks.
Question is, will this also translate to being faster on 3G, or will the slower connection nullify any speed advantage?
Thanks.
Not done any hard core tests but the browser is much quicker on the iPad 2 compared to the original. The new browser tweaks plus the faster graphics hardware makes the iPad 2 a GREAT improvement.
WELL worth the investment for me.
WELL worth the investment for me.
...
JavaScript isn't the whole story. The iPad is not nearly as fast as my iMac at browsing however one difference appears to be that on the iMac it won't let you scroll until the page is loaded fully or if it does you get the site without the pictures disayed. On the iPad it will scroll whenever but will give you the checkered screen until the page is fully rendered in that area including the photos which makes it feel slower
JavaScript isn't the whole story. The iPad is not nearly as fast as my iMac at browsing however one difference appears to be that on the iMac it won't let you scroll until the page is loaded fully or if it does you get the site without the pictures disayed. On the iPad it will scroll whenever but will give you the checkered screen until the page is fully rendered in that area including the photos which makes it feel slower