I was on 6.1.2 on my iPad 3 until this week. I wanted to upgrade to 7.0.4 while I still could and didn't want to be stuck on 6.1.2 if/when Apple releases a patch. I jailbroke right away too even though not many of my tweaks work yet.
Ios 7 on ipad 3 is horrible and slow.
Ios 7 on ipad 3 is horrible and slow.
Think the wife will notice much? I am not sure she really even needs a JB at this point. But more and things are requesting iOS7 to upgrade and/or install.
But I don't want it to slow down her browsing...she will start grabbing my MBAir more often!! Can't let that happen! ;-)
I'm on 7.0.4 with my iPad 3. I haven't noticed anything that is "horrible and slow." It works just fine for me with no noticeable slowdowns. I doubt your wife will notice anything except the new OS.
the UI on ios 7 is obviously much slower on the ipad 3. theres a reason why apple decided to disable a lot of the visual effects specificially for that generation of ipad. if you can't tell a difference than your tolerance just must be really high for bad performance.