I’ve been wondering the same thing about the iPad Mini. My mom and mother-in-law both have the same vintage (v1, I think) and both complain of browser crashes w

I’ve been wondering the same thing about the iPad Mini. My mom and mother-in-law both have the same vintage (v1, I think) and both complain of browser crashes when loading some web sites and playing video on Facebook. My guess is it’s a combination of terrible bloated sites and only having 512MB of RAM (a 2-year-old HTC Desire with 1GB RAM works fine for the same purposes), but recent news does make one wonder if a battery would make a difference.