Browser Comparison Between Original iPad and iPad 2
TiPb offers this nice comparison video showing the improvements in the iPad 2 web browser over the original iPad. The original iPad came with only 256MB of RAM as compared to 512MB found in the iPhone 4. This relative lack of ram was considered one of the reasons why the original iPad's browser would have to completely reload pages when moving from one page to another.
As shown in the video, the new iPad 2 is able to cache these additional pages so you can jump back and forth without delay. The new iPad 2 also seems to scroll/redraw each page faster than the original iPads as well. Note that the video's narrator speculates that the iPad 2 may have 512MB or 1GB of ram, but based on software testing, we know the iPad has 512MB of ram, same as the iPhone 4.
Besides additional RAM, the iPad 2 also has an improved dual-core A5 processor as compared to the original iPad's single-core A4.
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16 months ago
That looks very impressive - much better Safari performance.
Hurry up 25th........
Hurry up 25th........
16 months ago
That does look impressive. Not concerned about the reloading tabs as I use atomic and I haven't seen that happen but no checkerboard effect is a great improvement :D
16 months ago
Also notable in this video is the difference in the white level. It's fairly shocking, the iPad 2 looks vastly better.
16 months ago
I'm sure the lack of was done on purpose. Look, these tablets are not even upgradable except if you look at a possible SD card slots. But other than that, nada. So if you want to keep selling them things iteration after iteration you have to go slow.
16 months ago
Haha... the guy made a statement in the beginning and was taken by surprise when iPad1 did cache the pages..... :D
16 months ago
Haha... the guy made a statement in the beginning and was taken by surprise when iPad1 did cache the pages..... :D
Yeah, he was thinking "damn, I was hoping the iPad 1 is much worse".
16 months ago
Why does the screen on the 2 look shorter than the 1 in this?
I know right!! I kept thinking 'Hey I swear the iPad 2's screen looks a tiny bit shorter..'!!
16 months ago
I know right!! I kept thinking 'Hey I swear the iPad 2's screen looks a tiny bit shorter..'!!
Just watched it again and it does appear shorter!
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