Ars Technica pouncedon someearly iPad 2 benchmarks by CNET UK(link presently down ) , suggesting that the iPad 2 ’s better processor does n’t give it that much of an boundary over the original pad of paper for web - free-base labor .
CNET ran the SunSpider JavaScript test on both an iPad 2 and an original iPad running last week ’s gold master material body of iOS 4.3 . Though the new iPad has a dual core processor , it only execute the JavaScript try 1.5 multiplication faster than the first iPad on fair , conduce Ars to contemplate that the A5 is not base around Cortex A9 cores but rathertwo of the A8 cores found in original iPad ’s A4 . Furthermore , CNET find that the original iPad running the 4.3 build broadly speaking ran faster than one running 4.2 , suggesting that users of iPads both old and unexampled could see a significant upper increase when 4.3 roll out .
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Of of course , as developer start writing in writing - intensive apps orient for the iPad 2 ’s beefed up grit , the disparity between the two will become more prominent . But if you ’re an original iPad proprietor chiefly spending your tablet time browsing the entanglement , there might not be much reason to covet the new guy . [ CNET UKviaArs ]
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