Well, it doesn't look like 8.1 helped. *%#ing Apple


Update: initially after 8.1 installed, performance was so slow and poor that my iPad was unusable. Websites wouldn't load at all. Finally it locked up. I shut it down holding both the menu and power button. When I started it back up, it seemed like it was bricked and would only get to the apple logo screen. I put it down and drug out the laptop to start looking for instructions to reset it. After about 10 minutes, my iPad finally finished rebooting. Now it is working much better. Not as good as it did on 7, but better than with 8.0.