The only reason I might consider buying an ipad. But then other Win based pads will be able to run emulators...right? EDIT: hang on. I wont need an emulator. Just a no CD patch for the bitmap games i've got. Bitmap Brothers library on iOS…
It's mainly the ios that's causing the speed difference. The old ipad just feels a tad slower than my iphone, even running non graphical intensive apps like ebook readers.
If you want to update the software (which isn't forced, you can run older versions if you dont want new features, your device will still sync with old software etc) then yeah you need to re JB. But it's just another one click process, and since you can restore a backup of the phone after updating (which it does anyway when…