> We have seen this with using old desktop computers to browse the web.
That's not always the case though. ;)
About 3 years ago I got hold of a fully function dual Xeon system from around 2004 (!).
Only really wanted the case (old workstation, built like a tank) but the system itself still powered on and ran Win7 perfectly fine. Each of the two Xeon cpus was a single core thing (this was from before multi core), ran at ~3Ghz, and used about ~100w.
... and it played back Youtube videos perfectly fine. I think they were 1080p ones too, rather then 720p.
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We've seen that in later years (past this example above), computing power become "good enough" so that even old computers are completely workable more than a decade later.
Later model iPads will probably be the same, "good enough" for years after Apple is done with them.
That's not always the case though. ;)
About 3 years ago I got hold of a fully function dual Xeon system from around 2004 (!).
Only really wanted the case (old workstation, built like a tank) but the system itself still powered on and ran Win7 perfectly fine. Each of the two Xeon cpus was a single core thing (this was from before multi core), ran at ~3Ghz, and used about ~100w.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Xeon_processors_...
... and it played back Youtube videos perfectly fine. I think they were 1080p ones too, rather then 720p.
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We've seen that in later years (past this example above), computing power become "good enough" so that even old computers are completely workable more than a decade later.
Later model iPads will probably be the same, "good enough" for years after Apple is done with them.