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From a purely web browsing experience the first iPad 'should be' powerful enough to browse ANYTHING out there these days. But it can't. The last few models will increasingly have the same issues as the sheer volume of muck and cruft that's included with the advertising gack just continues to explode.

I'm definitely of the opinion that our web browsing devices are marketing tools that we are allowed to use for media consumption.

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The first iPad sucked a whole bunch. Only 256mb RAM especially hurt. But I hear what you’re saying.

I beg to differ. Of course if you compare it with today's spec it sucks... its been more than 10 years since launch! I can still use my iPad 1 to watch Netflix and play some old games I like (i.e. Carcassonne). The battery still works pretty good. I would say that the iPad 1 rocked, and should be able to browse today's web ... except it can't because of the amount of cruft that is pushed our thoughts nowadays.

I loved mine at least a year and was quite happy for another year. Some sites worked awesome, others sucked hard due to crazy pay loads.

I blame shitty sites more than Apples architecture :(

If it still got software updates to Safari, then maybe. But also, browsing the web on my iPad Air gen 1 is pretty painful.

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