The iPad 1 still runs a surprising number of modern apps. My son plays newish games like Angry Birds Star Wars 2 or Asphalt Heat 7 without crashes or minimal lag. Not bad for a 4 year old device with only 256 Megs of RAM.
I'm not sure what apps you're running, but I haven't had the same experience. If the app can be downloaded from the store and doesn't prevent you from opening it on older devices (ex: CSR Classic) it'll run just fine.
The browser on my iPad 1 crashes constantly now (running the newer OS). Are you running iOS5 or the OS it came with? Do you do much web browsing on it?
Me too and this is frustrating. With 64bit processor we would expect bigger ram since data grow it's size.
1GB seems too small and I fear I'll hit the memory size wall again too soon. May be the next iPad will have a bigger ram.
Good point. I haven't done much browsing on it in a while, it's mostly used for my son's apps. I'll need to play around with that a bit. It's running the OS 5.1.1.
I experience the same crashing issues. Usually with Safari.
It's ok though. It's a 4 year old device I've used literally every day since launch day. I'm pretty ok with how far its gotten me and am surprised it has survived given how much abuse I throw at it.
You must not have upgraded to ios 6. Otherwise even opening the app store, or loading theverge.com in safari cause reproducible crashes for me. Goodreader is the only app that still appears to work reliably - albeit much slower than it used to be.
