Downgrade iPad 3 from 8.1.3 to 6.1.3

Hello all, it's been a long time since I've frequented these forums.



I'm having an issue trying to downgrade my iPad 3 to an earlier iOS. iOS 8 is ridiculously slow on my iPad and while it came with iOS 5 installed I figured I'd install 6 just to have some newer features.



I have an iPad 3 CDMA. I'm working with a 2008 MacBook laptop running snow leopard (of which ever was the last thing I could upgrade to for that matter) and iTunes 12. I downloaded 2 different iOS 6 restore ipsw files and when I start the restore process it gets all the way to the end of the status bar for "extracting" in iTunes, then comes up with an error saying something like it is not compatible for my device. Is this something that doesn't workin less you have an old copy of iTunes installed?



Any help would be appreciated.



Also, I'm curious, for those that have successfully downgraded, were you able to download the last versions of the apps that work with that iOS? Just want to make sure I can at least download some apps for it once I get it going.



Thank you all for your help.

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