You should notice a performance difference simply because the iPad Mini 2 has the A7 processor whereas the original iPad Mini just as your iPod Touch and the iPhone 4S have the A5 processor.
Keep in mind that while according to benchmark tests the iPad Mini Retina comes in at 5 times faster than the original iPad Mini, you will not notice this difference a lot for day-to-day usage such as checking mail, using the Music app, Audible app or most likely even browsing. Maybe down the road as developers start to take advantage of the 64 Bit architecture of the A7 processor we might see performance improvements. Of course this will take some time and chances are that in 2 or 3 years when this will really start to happen you will want whatever the latest iPad Mini is then which of course will yet be much faster as these things go. It is very easy to find information about this if you Google things like "iPad Mini Retina performance" or "iPad Mini original vs iPad Mini Retina". Here is a link and the author's conclusion: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/521945/20131113/retina-ipadmini-benchmarks -faster-original-ipad-geekbench3.htm To sum up the benchmark results, here is what John Poole cites on his blog at Primatelabs.com: The new iPad mini is substantially faster than the original iPad mini with an over 5x increase in performance. Given that the iPad mini has the same processor found in the iPhone 5s and the iPad Air, this isn't terribly surprising. However, the new iPad mini is 7% slower than the Air in both single-core and multi-core tests. While the difference is significant, I don't think it's significant enough to warrant purchasing an Air instead of a mini for performance alone. Also, since I expect developers to still support the iPad 2 and the iPad mini for some time I don't expect much software will take advantage of the A7 processor to the point where that 7% difference will matter. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
