I wasn't going to update my iPad 2, but your comments have changed my mind. Downloading now. Thanks! Cheers, Christine
Sent from my iPad > On Oct 22, 2014, at 12:51 AM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > > iOS 8 was initially a disaster on my iPad2. Battery consumption was up, > speed was down and it screwed up my cell connection. The cell connection is > essential to me 'cause I use it to take credit card payments when I'm away > from my office. It was inconsistent and would come and go at random. If I > really needed it my option was to reboot the iPad - frustrating, when you > have a customer standing there with credit card in hand. And the kid at the > Apple store was more interested in selling me a new iPad than admitting that > the OS was the problem. > > But...iOS 8.1 fixed it all. Battery is back to where it was, speed is better > and my cell connection works like it's supposed to work. > > I even got the iPad to shake hands with the iPhone 5s so I can send text > messages to non-iOS phones. > > -p > >> On 10/21/2014 10:09 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: >>> On Oct 21, 2014, at 17:49 , Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> What’s the skinny on the new OSX? It’s supposed to provide more iPHone >>> support, which is a plus, but are there drawbacks? Some have said the >>> interface is childish and trite. Others have said its gimmicks will slow >>> down the machine. Any fans or foes here? >> >> The only glitch I've run into is that my older version of VMWare Fusion >> (v5.something) stopped working after my update. Oh well, it was time to get >> current anyways. >> >> Other than that: I've made my laptop freeze up entirely by turning on a >> bluetooth headset for music, then going into messages and clicking >> "preferences / audio-video" so I've decided (after it happened twice) to >> just not do that anymore. >> >> LR5 works as snappy as ever, Safari is blazing fast, and battery life is >> just great! >> >> I'm happy to hear iOS8.1 is better on performance. I have a couple of >> friends who put v8 on their 4s devices and have been a bit disappointed in >> the speed. >> >> -Charles >> >> -- >> Charles Robinson - [email protected] >> Minneapolis, MN >> http://charles.robinsontwins.org >> http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > -- > Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
