George, I'm about to become unbearable ...

Mr. Venomous isn't running Windows.
Did you miss the magic words in his post:as in APPLE-tra-la!

I have a MacBookPro, also an iPad3. No slow-down, no crashes, no blue-screen-of-death. I don't know why it took me over 25 yrs to make the leap from PCs to Apples. My only regret is that I didn't did it sooner.