i knew that their would be issues with the retina display on the mini, and the 64 bit thats why i kept my ipad mini and did not upgrade to the rmini
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iPad No perceivable performance difference between iPad 4 and Air.
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And web browsing which most people do with their air. My air loads pages instantaneously. IPad 4 feels like a fat slow grandma in comparison.
I got rid of my iPad Air because of it's poor internet performance.
Page loading speed seems quite indiscernible between the Air and the 4 to me (the pages just don't crash after loading when using the 4
).I got rid of my iPad Air because of it's poor internet performance.
Page loading speed seems quite indiscernible between the Air and the 4 to me (the pages just don't crash after loading when using the 4
Thats not internet performance. You are talking browser performance.
Perhaps a wrong choice of word, but reading it in conjunction with the post I quoted it's quite apparent I was discussing the browser.
Well we ain't on 7.1 yet.
The quantum leap for now would be the price I would have to pay for the new mini versus the first gen cellular model I decided was good enough for now. Truly I do not think many folks would have turned down the cellular model with the price I got it for.
I see. But speak for yourself, some us are on 7.1 and bit the bullet
But you're right I mean the out of box experience should be buttery smooth. Then again I'd like root out of the box but I guess that's where jailbreak comes in.
When more apps utilise 64 bit and iOS 8 is here we will see a greater performance leap. Right now, for the average user, on iOS 7.1 there is no instantly perceivable performance gap between the iPad 4 and iPad Air.
Power users who use photo or video editing apps for example will see their work completed faster on the Air compared to the 4, but even on the top end games right now there is very, very little if anything to separate them other than slightly quicker load times. This will of course change in the next six to eight months.
Many cite Infinity Blade 3 as an example of some fancier effects on an A7 device. True until you try this:
http://m.cultofmac.com/cultofmac/#!...-devices-jailbreak,528a0bbbe56d0bb85339f26b/1
Power users who use photo or video editing apps for example will see their work completed faster on the Air compared to the 4, but even on the top end games right now there is very, very little if anything to separate them other than slightly quicker load times. This will of course change in the next six to eight months.
Many cite Infinity Blade 3 as an example of some fancier effects on an A7 device. True until you try this:
http://m.cultofmac.com/cultofmac/#!...-devices-jailbreak,528a0bbbe56d0bb85339f26b/1
No it was not apparent at all. The two are completely different. The browser crashing is one thing but the iPad hair has better wifi capability and on LTE iPad Air blows all the other devices away. Even the iPhone 5s is noticeably faster than the iPhone 5. Web sites running on tons of javascript load instantly.
Not seeing anything like this here. The only thing that I notice is that returning to the home screen there is a slight jump at the last part of the animation. This looks more like a bug than a stutter to me, though, as it doesn't look like it has any inconsistency or like it has anything to do with load.
This I do see, at least the first swipe down. Interesting.
Nope. Not seeing this.
If I try to swipe before the animation has completed, then it won't swipe. But, if I wait until the animation is done, it swipes fine. There might be a <0.5s delay in there, but nothing close to 1.5s, for me.
I have noticed that there is a little bit of a delay when switching to an app. Sometimes it shows me the last screen on the app for a second before the app properly takes control. Netflix is a good example of this, where it will show me my selection screen for a second, exactly as it looked when I last left the app, then the screen will turn red as the app goes into active log-in mode.
I have my pet peeves with the iOS keyboard, but this isn't one of them. I see very good performance from the keyboard, in general. My one big complaint, however, is that I am forever getting irritated by the fact that if I type too fast, and end up starting to hit key 2 before I've finished letting go of key 1, iOS decides to ignore both of those key hits. For example, if I try to write "them" too fast and I end up with "em".
Well, I'm sorry to hear that you're having such difficulties. While I agree that it would be nice to see these things ironed out, those little bugs that I'm seeing are so minor that they don't really effect my use of my device. (That typing issue is the closest one to truly bothering me.)
Of course, I didn't just go from an iPad 4 to an iPad Air, I went from an iPad 2 to an iPad Air. I really feel the improvement in performance with that upgrade!
there shouldnt be a huge difference and there wont be much of a noticable difference for probably 2 or 3 years--it isnt much of an upgrade and i would go from ipad 4 to the ipad 6 (or ipad air2-whatever they call the next ipad)
The performance is truly not the way you described it on my ipad air. For me it's much smoother and faster. I don't know what it is but for some reason people are receiving slow ipad airs. Or some with screen defects. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones because mine works great and handles anything I throw at it..
The performance is truly not the way you described it on my ipad air. For me it's much smoother and faster. I don't know what it is but for some reason people are receiving slow ipad airs. Or some with screen defects. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones because mine works great and handles anything I throw at it..
I had this same fear, that maybe my device was a tad underclocked, maybe even for the European market (For some insane regulatory reason) but I have the same issues as above and I installed Geekbench. My iPad shows the same benchmarked scores as everyone else so it's not clock speed. CPU and GPU are right up there with great results.
If 7.1 doesn't fix these issues I'm coming to the conclusion that the digitizor on the screen is faulty or some models ship with a poorer quality one than others and its here that the slowness is. Our every interaction with the iPad is through the screen (well 98% anyway) and if this isn't quite speedy enough then we feel the device is slow.
We'll have to wait for iOS 7.1 to prove this one way or the other.
The other end of this of course is those who don't see the laggy issues have less of a perception on them than some of us do. MAybe you came from older devices which were already quite slow and the iPad Air is marvellous in comparison. Maybe we're just TOO fussy.
Apple made us that way...
Well I came from a jailbroken 8gb iPod touch 4th gen so maybe I simply don't realize the slowness.. But it truly doesn't seem slow at all lol
Nope, not seeing that at all, comparing across an Air, a 4 and an iPhone 5s. I don't see any real difference in internet or browser speed (leaving the propensity of the Air to crash with a number of websites out of the equation).
No "blowing out of the water", in fact, hardly even a slight rocking on the water...
The differences from one years hardware to the next isn't something that most people notice. Most people don't upgrade that quickly. The difference between iPad 4 and iPad Air was very noticeable to me under very heavy usage.
The Air 2 is the Air everyone should have.
I got the Air 2 a little while ago for one and one reason only, it's the iPad Air that the original should have been. In fact the original was such a disappointment for me so I'm selling it now.
The Air 2 is snappy as hell and truly has great performance for what iOS 8 needs. Jumping between apps is smooth and without lag or stuttering, Safari is quick and responsive and while webpages still tend to have to reload after a while it doesn't seem to take so long.
The most painful thing on the original iPad Air was multi finger gestures to go back to the home screen or jump to another app. You would perform the action and then watch for 1 or 2 seconds as the iPad tried to load the next screen in immense pain, this killed productivity and made the feature useless. On the Air 2 it's quick and fluid in all circumstances.
If anyone is going to buy an iPad Air, get the 2 and don't be dissappointed by the original. The extra 1 gig of RAM (that everyone has been screaming for forever) and CPU power makes a big difference here.
I got the Air 2 a little while ago for one and one reason only, it's the iPad Air that the original should have been. In fact the original was such a disappointment for me so I'm selling it now.
The Air 2 is snappy as hell and truly has great performance for what iOS 8 needs. Jumping between apps is smooth and without lag or stuttering, Safari is quick and responsive and while webpages still tend to have to reload after a while it doesn't seem to take so long.
The most painful thing on the original iPad Air was multi finger gestures to go back to the home screen or jump to another app. You would perform the action and then watch for 1 or 2 seconds as the iPad tried to load the next screen in immense pain, this killed productivity and made the feature useless. On the Air 2 it's quick and fluid in all circumstances.
If anyone is going to buy an iPad Air, get the 2 and don't be dissappointed by the original. The extra 1 gig of RAM (that everyone has been screaming for forever) and CPU power makes a big difference here.
The 5 finger pinch to return the home screen has zero delay on the first iPad Air running iOS 7.1.2, different story on iOS 8 right enough where there is a little UI stutter, but when using that gesture on 7.1.2 there's no delay in the response when using the gesture and between the animation beginning and the apps flying back onto the home screen.
When using the four finger swipe left/right to move between open apps, I see what you mean about the apps that have "timed out" taking a second or two to reload, but it's not as painfully slow as you make it out to be.
I'll try out 8.2 when it hits demo units in the Apple Store and see if the bugs in the UI are "squashed" (much like 7.1 sorted the end of the animation when using five finger pinch to return to the home screen on iOS 7 after it was broken from 7.0 onwards). If not I'll keep this Air on 7.1.2 and enjoy the performance.
In terms of UI fluidity (the zooming in/out animations, etc) the Air 1 on iOS 7.1.2 is identical to the Air 2 on 8.1.2 ... although there's no excuse for this slight stutter when in terms of UI design iOS 8 is identical to iOS 7 bar two slight changes (blur on home screen behind keyboard on Spotlight, and the Favourites "square" on Safari when you tap the URL bar as opposed to the entire page going white and showing the favourites like on iOS 7).
I'll get an Air 2 sometime next year IF I begin to see Apps stretching my Air 1 and becoming unusable. And given my 7 years experience of iOS devices, I know all too well that we're not going to see the latest model stretch it legs any time soon. It'll come, but not while the install base of the A6 and still sold A7 devices is so large.
Air 2 will be around for a long time though, unless Apple put something ridiculous in the Air 3, which we'll wait even longer to see get pushed to its limits.