The processor even on iPad 1 and iPhone 4 is pretty powerful. iPad 1 severely lacks memory and especially graphics memory which means it moves a lot of memory between regular and graphics memory which hurts performance.
And iOS 7 has all these effects which eat a lot of GPU performance and it has a changed scheduling which is not good on the single-core devices. On the Air it's actually all the live blur effects that eat up all the performance. Given that is has a higher resolution than an HD TV these take an incredible amount of power. Turn them off in the accessibility settings and it will become lightning fast. Most ordinary notebooks would not have enough graphics power to do the same kind of effects. Plus, of course, you don't need 60hz frame rates for scrolling on a computer. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 7, the Universal App for iOS 7* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102270 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
