iPad Is it worth it to buy iPad Air now?

[adamj575]

best tablet you can buy...why wait...get in while the getting is good

 

[nikusak]

iPad Air would be the perfect tablet if not for its 1GB RAM...

1 year ago, I got myself a Mini and it was fine until it started to annoy the crap out of me because of Safari constantly having to reload. Obviously, 512 MB is not enough, but Apple is too damn greedy.
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Yes, with two gigabytes this would be really sweet device, and very future proof too, thanks to the great CPU and GPU.

iOS 7.1 seems to be better when it comes to Safari and tab reloads, but one can only imagine how great this would be with two gigabytes There would be a truly massive amount of free memory for keeping those web pages in memory, not to mention for (un)suspending applications etc..

One gigabyte of RAM is just greedy, there is no way around it.

Have you considered picking up a second hand 4th gen iPad? If I had known how crappy iOS 7.0.x was going to be on Air, I would have picked a used 4th gen instead.

It is a bit chunky, but the display is just as great and the performance is fine for pretty much everything you will ever do on it. In practise it is just as future proof as this Air I am typing this on. They will keep on supporting the 32-bit version of iOS for a long time and it probably has more free RAM than this, so whatever upgrades the Air gets, the 4th gen gets too, unless Apple starts being really nasty...

 

[Haynzee]

Personally I'm hanging on until a 2GB ram iPad comes out. The 1GB is really becoming an issue for me (I have iPad 3). It's nice to see Apple coming on leaps and bounds with the CPU but the 1GB Ram limit is crippling imo and I was shocked iPad Air didn't have more.

 

[joshisaboss]

now that iOS 7.1 is out I cant think of a better time to get an Air

 

[alphaod]

Sure it is. Still terrific.