Re:2012 MacBook Pro Powers on By Itself on Rough Roads
by mikeash on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @10:15AM
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More of a deliberate cost tradeoff than a defect, but the first iPad only included 256MB of RAM, which is woefully inadequate for the number of pixels it has to drive. As a result, it will not get new OS updates starting with iOS 6, and a lot of other software is unhappy on it. It's not bad, but the second version was considerably better.
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Re:2012 MacBook Pro Powers on By Itself on Rough Roads
by bergie on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @10:22AM
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True, for instance Mobile Safari is very crashy on it. This is of course not unique to just iOS, at least on Transformer Prime a lot of Android applications like GMail tend to crash a lot. So I'd count it more as a defect from a still young platform.
Re:2012 MacBook Pro Powers on By Itself on Rough Roads
by r00fus on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @06:55PM
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The 2010 iPad is still a great piece of gear and despite not having iOS6, will still run games and apps pretty well.
By 2013, a lot of apps will have migrated to iOS6, and the iPad1 might start to lose some of the platform benefits, but will still be a solid device.