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Originally Posted by YaWhateva
You boys at Cupertino have really outdone yourselves. The same amount of RAM as a phone AND the same (terrible) cameras as an iPod. Magical!
iPad 2 review -- Engadget |
Did it even need more RAM? It performs much better than the previous generation, and it blows the iPhone 4 out of the water (despite the iPhone having twice the RAM at 512 MB).
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As we noted above, the iPad is equipped with a 1GHz, dual-core chip called the A5. According to Geekbench, the CPU is clocked at 800MHz. When we first handled the device, it seemed noticeably faster to us, and even after a week with the tablet, it's still zippier than the previous model by a longshot.
The CPU and graphics performance of this tablet felt extremely impressive to us -- the iPad 2 performed excellently no matter what we threw at it, games and graphically taxing apps seemed to have higher frame rates, and even when dealing with CPU intensive programs like GarageBand, it rarely (if ever) seemed to be struggling.
But don't just take our word for it: Geekbench demonstrates quite clearly just what the processor gains on the iPad 2 look like.
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Would more RAM make a significant enough difference? Would it be worth the extra cost?
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