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All iPads iPad Mini 1st gen
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Umm, maybe you don't use tabs and keep multiple apps open. Anyway, I'm an application developer and I'm fairly confident that 512MB of RAM and a 2+ year old SoC are recipes for terrible performance.
And the CPU power and the GPU power are different measures of a SoC's performance. The Retina Mini's A7 is significantly faster than the A5 in CPU and GPU tasks, even considering the 4X resolution.
The first gen mini wouldn't be suitable for an app developer I'd imagine. It works fine for me but I am not a power user.
Maybe things are changing, but the whole idea of ipad & 'power user' seems like an oxymoron to me. These devices are consumption toys. The limited nature of iOS makes that a certainty.
I had the first ipad and later the ipad 3 (retina screen), I assure you that the same photos took up a lot more space in the later device.
The first ipad had no camera you must mean the ipad 2
That's because the ipad 3 has a higher resolution camera therefore larger pictures compared to the ipad. Ipad 3 has a 5 megapixel the ipad 2 has a VGA camera which is a much lower resolution
No, you use development devices to test how your applications work on certain devices.
I had a first gen for personal use, however, and I frequently found that running more than one application at one time would result in tab reloading, app reloading, and crashing.
The first ipad had no camera you must mean the ipad 2
That's because the ipad 3 has a higher resolution camera therefore larger pictures compared to the ipad. Ipad 3 has a 5 megapixel the ipad 2 has a VGA camera which is a much lower resolution
Oh, no. I was referring to the photos that you sync with itunes. I think they take up more room in the retina ipads, it was what seemed to me anyway.
To the OP: if you like the first gen mini, you don't need the others on an internet forum to recognize your choice.
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A5 chip was debuted in early 2011 for the iPad 2. In 2014, it's 3 years old already. The first-gen iPad mini was slow already at the time of release. But at that time, the big iPad was huge and very heavy, so the compromise seemed justified. But getting it with today's price? I'm not so sure. Browsing the web with a smaller screen and awful PPI? Reading text/eBooks on that screen? I'm even not that sure. And it's just $100 less than the rMini.
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A5 chip was debuted in early 2011 for the iPad 2. In 2014, it's 3 years old already. The first-gen iPad mini was slow already at the time of release. But at that time, the big iPad was huge and very heavy, so the compromise seemed justified. But getting it with today's price? I'm not so sure. Browsing the web with a smaller screen and awful PPI? Reading text/eBooks on that screen? I'm even not that sure. And it's just $100 less than the rMini.
Well that's what I'm saying; the first gen Mini was pretty bad when it came out, and it's awful now. It's mainly the RAM; if there were a full 1GB onboard, the A5 wouldn't need to reload nearly as many apps and pages. The SoC's performance limitations would be somewhat masked by the large amount of system memory.
