IPAD Air

Rage85 · 11 Feb 2014 at 13:37

is this the best ipad to get? where is the best place to get one? (im not bothered about memory)

Nymins · 11 Feb 2014 at 14:00

Its the same as the iPad Mini 2nd Gen in terms of spec, although has a bigger screen. Depends what you want.

Can't really advise anywhere to buy other than the Apple Store for obvious reasons.

Rage85 · 11 Feb 2014 at 16:11

i want the latest ipad with the biggest screen

lamboman · 11 Feb 2014 at 17:28

Surely it's obvious that the Air is the best model to get, if you want the latest iPad with the biggest display...:S

Best place...a well known department store with the initials JL offer a three year warranty as standard, and is without a doubt the place I'd buy from.

Antx777 · 15 Feb 2014 at 00:16

lamboman said:
Surely it's obvious that the Air is the best model to get, if you want the latest iPad with the biggest display...:S

Best place...a well known department store with the initials JL offer a three year warranty as standard, and is without a doubt the place I'd buy from.

There's plenty of complaining though on mac forums (and elsewhere) with ipad air safari bugs, low memory usage diagnostics, specific website crashes, etc. Especially on 7.04 .

Is ipad 4 more stable with 1gig ram on "32 bit" than the ipad air on same amount (but faster) ram running 64 bit. I wonder. ?...

MonsterMoshi · 15 Feb 2014 at 02:01

Can't deny that there are some stability issues but I would imagine they will be resolved in the imminent release of 7.1
Read a lot of positive things from the beta

tribz · 15 Feb 2014 at 18:45

7.1 beta 5 is very stable compared to release 7.04.

lamboman · 15 Feb 2014 at 22:17

Antx777 said:
There's plenty of complaining though on mac forums (and elsewhere) with ipad air safari bugs, low memory usage diagnostics, specific website crashes, etc. Especially on 7.04 .

Is ipad 4 more stable with 1gig ram on "32 bit" than the ipad air on same amount (but faster) ram running 64 bit. I wonder. ?...

Memory leaks on iOS 7.0.x. As tribz said, apparently 7.1 betas have been far more stable. Anyhow, I wouldn't be buying anything other than an iPad Air now (and in fact am struggling about whether to buy one myself!).

Spit · 16 Feb 2014 at 22:59

Running 7.1 beta 5 on my iPad mini retina and no crashes in safari at all so far. Loving the speed increase and new keyboard.

Fallen god · 17 Feb 2014 at 10:17

Antx777 said:
Is ipad 4 more stable with 1gig ram on "32 bit" than the ipad air on same amount (but faster) ram running 64 bit. I wonder. ?...

The 64bit version of Safari is ****ed basically, Apple should really adopt Android updates to 1st party apps, it is already fixed in the betas of 7.1. Also from the anandtech review things take up to 30% more ram in 64bit mode so Apple should have really paired it with 2gb of ram it seems.