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Scrolling through pictures in the Photos app is ugly on iPad 2.
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We always have all kind of conspiracy theories but last year they specified A4 as 1Ghz chip on the iPad page when they launched iPad and it indeed run at 1 Ghz. on original iPad.
I suspect the Photos app may have needed a major rewrite to work with dual core CPU fluidly and Apple felt performance was good enough to wait a couple months until iOS5, when we could see a whole new version of the Photos app (maybe it becomes iPhoto even!)
Yet this year the new A5 does not run at 1 GHz. Probably underclocked to get similar battery life out of a dual core chip in a thinner package.
Hardly a big deal as it's a quicker chip anyways.
Unfortunately for web browsing speed it doesn't yet match a 2 year old dual core laptop. Guess it's too much to ask from any tablet yet
Sure. I don't care too much about it. When you find a test that indeed shows it running at 1 GHz please report back with a link. Howzzat??
Everybody cool?
This discussion got me wondered: did Steve Jobs confirm that A5 run at 1 Ghz? And he said "It's dual core processor. 2 processors inside. So we get up to twice as fast on CPU performance.". So he's kind of comfirm it.
A lot of grounds for legal action don't you think? Their website. The presentation by their CEO...
A lot of grounds for legal action don't you think? Their website. The presentation by their CEO...
I'm not going to get into the whole CPU speed conversation, but I will agree with the OP that the Photos app is nowhere near as smooth as it was on the iPad.
Definitely jerky when flicking from photo to photo. Didn't really notice anything on the zooming but the scrolling through definitely doesn't look good
Definitely jerky when flicking from photo to photo. Didn't really notice anything on the zooming but the scrolling through definitely doesn't look good
somebody NEEDS to post a goddamn video comparison for us to see. i sold my ipad before i got the 2 so can't see it for myself
It's a 1 ghz CPU underclocked to save battery. The new architecture of the chip allows the iPad to still be much faster at a lower clock speed. We need to break out of the mhz myth.
What I do wonder though is if the CPU does clock up to 1 ghz when under super heavy load. That would make Apple's specs still accurate. Just like how intel chips have turboboost.
What I do wonder though is if the CPU does clock up to 1 ghz when under super heavy load. That would make Apple's specs still accurate. Just like how intel chips have turboboost.
somebody NEEDS to post a goddamn video comparison for us to see. i sold my ipad before i got the 2 so can't see it for myself
Comparison video of scrolling one picture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUkAkrmy2ts
iPad 1&2 same configuration 64Gb 3G, no other apps running in the background.
I wouldn't lose any sleep over it but it's interesting nonetheless. If I have to guess I'd say the photo app runs only on one core.
Even if you're right, I think one core is fast enough to scroll it smoothly, actually when you hold finger all the time on the photo and scroll that way it's smooth on iPad2, when you lift you finger and leave ipad to finish scrolling by itself then it's choppy.
