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sparksd

macrumors G4
Original poster
Jun 7, 2015
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Put it on my 2021 12.9 and performance seems quite improved over 14 - much snappier and responsive. My imagination? Others feel the same? Antutu score went from 1,113,000 to 1,270,638.
 
you have to wait a few days. Many upgrades tend to clear the cache so it's fast in the first few days (after the initial indexing is done)

Eventually, it'll bog down and go back to its usual speeds, which is kinda ironic since caches are supposed to speed things up but...
 
you have to wait a few days. Many upgrades tend to clear the cache so it's fast in the first few days (after the initial indexing is done)

Eventually, it'll bog down and go back to its usual speeds, which is kinda ironic since caches are supposed to speed things up but...

But what about the post-update indexing that people use as a reason why a device seems slower immediately after an update?
 
Put it on my 2021 12.9 and performance seems quite improved over 14 - much snappier and responsive. My imagination? Others feel the same? Antutu score went from 1,113,000 to 1,270,638.
Mines running nice and fast and got a nice Antutu bump to 1,239,786
 
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