iPad vs. iPad 2: RAM Performance in MobileSafari [Video]

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Posted March 12, 2011 at 9:50am by Shalom Levytam

TiPb has posted a nice video demonstrating how the iPad 2's increase in RAM makes MobileSafari perform much better.

The original iPad tends to "kill" background tabs whenever it runs out of available memory, which can get pretty annoying if you use the iPad primarily for web browsing. The iPad 2 performed flawlessly and had no hiccups when browsing. Also the dreaded "checkerboard effect" — where significant lag would occur before Safari could render the web page content — is nowhere to be found. Scrolling in Safari is smooth as butter, and gone are the days when switching between tabs meant loading the entire page from scratch.

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namedb - March 12, 2011 at 8:40pm

i can live with my old ipad's checkerboard effect or refreshing the pages. it's stupid to upgrade to the new ipad just because of these issues

Joe - March 12, 2011 at 3:12pm

According to the teardown posted earlier, the iPad 2 has 512Mb ram like iPhone 4.

Awayze - March 12, 2011 at 1:36pm

Erm not fair test, ones jailbroken and one isn't, a fair test would be a clean restore and then loading the webpages.

Brando - March 12, 2011 at 12:31pm

Looks like you have some background, possibly jailbroken utility running on the iPad that you don't have on the iPad 2. Doesn't make for a true apples to apples comparison...