iPad model comparison
I’m using an iPad Air, 1st Generation, which I love and use a lot. I use it mostly for web browsing, Numbers (part of iWorks) and that is really all I use it for. It has served me well, though my more complex spreadsheets do lag or crash, and I am quite aware that newer models are available. However, as I live in a small, and rather poor, Latin American country with a local currency tied to the value of the US dollar, importing anything is prohibitively expensive. The price of a new iPad is the equivalent of salary and living expenses for several months. The price is not that much higher than that of a car.
I have tested my device with GeekBench.
I don’t have the faintest idea what most of this information means, but I know it ranks low down on the scale, which I have included there on the left. Too small to read, I know, but the top models are the iPad Pro and Air 3, with scores over 1100 - 4 times the value of my score.
But what exactly does it mean? So the overall score is 3x higher, but this does not mean that I will find my experience to be 3x faster, right? I could probably develop my spreadsheets to be a bit more sophisticated before encountering stability issues, but I will encounter them, as even on a Mac Numbers is not known for handling large data sets well.
I’m having a hard time determining whether or not I should upgrade, and if so, which model I should choose, as both the Pro and the Air 3 score about the same.
iPad Air, iOS 12