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iPad Upgrading from ipad 3...justified or not?
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I just finished about 50 hours of testing my upcoming game on an iPad 3 and iPad mini. The iPad 3 is soo heavy it was a pain I dont understand how people use it nonstop haha. Im just a weakling i guess haha.
It depends on your needs. My wife is still using an iPad 2 and won't upgrade. I have an Air but she is happy staying on her release day iPad 2. If you can get away with it then upgrade. But remember, if mama ain't happy then nobody happy.
What performance difference? I don't see any apps in the App store that kills the iPad 3 so far.
It's nice to have all that paper performance, but it's really a waste of money to upgrade.
Even if the iPad Air 2 has an Intel Broadwell quad core laptop CPU in it, it's still not worth the upgrade if there aren't any apps that make use of that performance.
I don't have anything quantitative to prove it, but when I've played games lately, I've had all kind of quirky performance issues with my three. I've had quite a few times whine gameplay was affected. If the new air has two gigs of ram, I think my daughter will be getting my three. I was originally on the fence but leaning towards a new purchase if the specs are correct. I just don't want to buy another "tweener" model like the three was.
I think it's worth waiting for next release to fix current issues since the short wait will pay off in the end.
It will be an opportunity to get a lighter device, better screen, faster processor, and perhaps a storage increase.
While the air is a nice device, Apple is stingy on storage and ram specs to prevent consumers from infringing on their hefty profit margin. They treat RAM marginal increases like it's still 1984.
It will be an opportunity to get a lighter device, better screen, faster processor, and perhaps a storage increase.
While the air is a nice device, Apple is stingy on storage and ram specs to prevent consumers from infringing on their hefty profit margin. They treat RAM marginal increases like it's still 1984.
I don't play games on my iPad 3, but last time I played Infinity blade III it ran without a problem and it's one of the most demanding games.
But if there are a few games that are not smooth, then I guess it's worth upgrading then. I haven't experienced it myself so far
I don't play games on my iPad 3, but last time I played Infinity blade III it ran without a problem and it's one of the most demanding games.
But if there are a few games that are not smooth, then I guess it's worth upgrading then. I haven't experienced it myself so far
Almost all games and apps run smoothly on the iPad 2 and 3. Almost all new apps and games are smooth and fast on these iPads also, and it looks like it will be this way for the foreseeable future. This makes me think Apple should start supporting iPads like they support Macs: provide software updates for eight years (which is basically the life of the device). Because what I don't want to happen is to have new apps that would run perfectly on an iPad, but require a certain iOS version and cannot be installed on the iPad because Apple left the iPad on an older iOS version.
