I have a new iPad Mini with Retina, and it amazes me how often the browser crashes. Also, when not crashing, it still has issues with far more websites than my laptop browser does (either in OSX or Win7)<p>Why is this the case?<p>I'm pretty sure the current iPad has a better CPU and likely more RAM than laptops had a few years ago, and yet laptop browsers were never as problematic as browsers on my iPad.<p>Laptop browsers work on more websites and are more stable. Why is this the case?
This happens because most sites are still optimized for desktop use, with little or no testing on iPad. You'd be amazed how broken layout or JS on vast majority of websites are, but few mention this because modern browsers do a decent job of working around say, JS bugs. IE is especially good in this respect. So people test their site on say, IE, Firefox and Chrome, and fix bugs until it works fine there, not mentioning a lot of bugs they still left which were worked around by the browsers, then you open it on your iPad on which they didn't test -> epic fail. Which doesn't say anything bad about iPad's hardware or software really.
Assuming the causes of the crashes are not caused by faulty hardware, but by bugs in software, a faster CPU at best means it can crash faster, but doesn't really do anything for avoiding crashes.