Dopers,
I’m currently using a (sluggish) 3.5 year old (2nd gen) iPad - mainly for web browsing and light gaming. It’s getting gradually more and more slow, the web browser crashes usually every other day or so. Is it time for a replacement? Are current iPads/tablets much better ?
I had an older Gen 2 ipad and had the same problems. It was dog slow and the browser crashed all the time. I even did the hard reset. Didn’t do a lick of good.
I’ve since upgraded to the smaller (9") iPad Pro. It runs perfectly fine.
I buy into the theory Chefguy mentioned how Apple achieves a forced obsolescence of their products through iOS updates.
I’m referring to “programmed failure” and “forced obsolesce.” That is firmly tinfoil territory.
iOS 8 was the one and only update that caught flak for being too large as an OTA release. Once installed, it did not consume an excessive amount of space nor did it overwhelm the memory.
I have a 3rd Generation ipad (the first one with a retina display) which is now 4 years old, it’s running latest iOS and it’s still fine, fast and responsive for web browsing and can run almost any game (very very few require later ipads).
I’m planning to get an iPad Pro soon anyway but not because this one is too slow just because I want the faster one to experiment with some things and try out the video editing tools on it.
Same here. It got sluggish for a bit last year and I went through and deleted a bunch of apps, and did a few other things suggested online, and it’s running fine.
Unfortunately, for the last few months it has started freezing, and/or randomly rebooting itself (sometimes I have to restart it a couple of times to get it going). Not so great, given I use it as an alarm clock.
This really has been my ideal device, but I think it’s time to buy a new one…