“The Apple iPad Air and iPad mini 2 are both now available and selling like hotcakes. Many people could be considering buying one of these tablets but might not be sure about which to opt for,” Phones Review reports. “Today we want to show you an iPad Air vs. iPad mini 2 speed test video.”
“If you’re still undecided, or even if you’ve already purchased one of these tablets, the results of this speed test may interest you,” Phones Review reports. “The video shows the two tablets side-by-side and for fairness they are not running anything other than existing settings and so that one doesn’t have any advantage than the other, histories have been cleared along with cookies and data. Both are also hooked up to the same wireless network.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As an aside, the speed difference between the fourth generation iPad (Late 2012) and the new iPad Air is remarkably noticeable throughout usage. Both iOS and all apps are quicker and even more responsive that the iPad (4th gen.) which was no slouch itself. Now that we’ve been using iPad Air for a few weeks, using older iPads is a tough assignment. What a jump in performance in just one year!
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This is not a scientific test at all. First off, he should have started with a factory reset, and he should have timed things rather than side-by-side. These two devices were sharing a WiFi connection, so they were possibly affecting each other’s access. It’s a nice idea but I think this test was not valid.
Indeed. He has different backgrounds, one should be bigger file size than the other, thereby affecting available RAM and storage capacity (however slightly). He has notifications and saved states for apps that are different. My pet peeve is when people touch two devices metal to metal, side by side and expect wifi/3G performance to somehow not be affected.
Plus he has what I call “shitty tap syndrome” where people tap with this pissy little flourish of the hand rather than just fucking tapping it normally (and then his tap timing is off). I blame the internets for teaching people to do this. 🙂 too many douchy tech bloggers making hands on videos… Gahhh ok I’m done. Good night.
To be fair, iOS 7 expectedly is way heavier for older devices than iOS 6 was. For example, iPhone 4 is too slow for iOS 7, while iOS 6 was fine.
Of course, iPad 4 is much faster than iPhone 4, but it would still feel slightly slower after upgrade from iOS 6 to iOS 7, and this is part why iPad Air now feels distinctly faster.
It would be more fair to compare snappiness between iPad 4 on iOS 6 (latest version) and iOS 7. Though Apple does not allow downgrade, so I am not sure how it could be done.
I’m using IOS 7 on my iPhone 4 and its running better than IOS 6 did. So my experience with IOS 7 on iPhone 4 is very good i bet NSAndroid users cant say the same for their old phones.
Same here, running iOS 7 on an iPad 2, no degradation noticeable at all, several things seem faster and smoother, and I haven’t even turned on the reduced motion feature.
But I have to agree, this comparison is a non-starter, side-by-side on the same network? We’re other devices also on the same connection? If this was a high school science assignment, it would be a fail for bad premise.
Theoretically, these should test identically, and until someone does a properly controlled comparison, I’d bet they are.
Cheers!
Yup, I’ve found iOS 7 to be faster overall than iOS 6, except over time things begin to slow down. And my battery time has started dropping much faster than under 6. But like 6, I expect Apple to optimize 7 and address these issues in due time.
There are 5 levels of speed for tablets.
Damn fast iPads, fast iPads, mediocre Android tablets and Win 8.1.
… that’s four levels of speed.
The fifth level is for Scamsung benchmark cheating and therefore delisted as being a potentially valid result.
He had the fifth one “speed of light” but it can’t be captured on this website.
The sixth one is “next year’s 12 inch iPads” .
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Seems to me that instantaneous is fast enough. I don’t want a tablet that executes commands before I make them.
If you are fortunate enough to attract the ideal significant other, it is then that you will begin to experience the quantum entanglement that is love.
How about a compare to some Samsung crap?
I am very happy with my Retina Mini. Fast, sharp and spacious (128gb). Not sure I like the Space Gray yet, but otherwise a huge improvement over my non-Retina Mini.
Would have looked much nicer and run much faster if both iPads had been running iOS 6. As it is iOS 7 runs too many unnecessary animations, swoops and zooms when switching between apps or moving between apps and the home page.
Whereas iOS 6 form follows function, in iOS 7 it’s form follows a designer’s whim. iOS 7 – over designed crap.
Get fuckin over it!
Get over yourself fucking asshole wanker.
One thing I would like to say is always that before buying more personal computer memory, look into the machine within which it is installed. If your machine is definitely running Windows XP, for instance, the memory threshold is 3.25GB. Putting in more than this would merely constitute a waste. Be sure that one’s mother board can handle your upgrade amount, as well. Good blog post.