The presence of the Google Play store gets you far more third-party apps than Amazon's own store (including e-reading apps from direct competitors like Kobo and Barnes & Noble), which is probably the single biggest benefit of rooting your Fire. The Kindle Fire's 512MB of memory is slight compared to modern Android tablets, which usually include 1GB or 2GB or RAM, but the software is good enough at caching apps that memory usage is rarely a problem.
The increased performance is the most evident gain-gone is the jerky scrolling and slow browsing performance of this and every other Kindle Fire we've seen so far, and in its place is a smooth experience that's not much different from the Nexus 7. If you understand and accept the risks, Jelly Bean is in many ways a huge improvement over Amazon's Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich-based software. There are also security concerns, since unlocking your tablet's bootloader can make it that much easier for it to be screwed up by malicious code or, in the case of theft, used to access your personal data. Some Android features may work intermittently or not at all, and there may be software bugs that the maintainers of these ROMs never get around to fixing. As we'll soon see, installing different software on your Kindle Fire can greatly increase its speed and utility, but it doesn't come without caveats. If you choose to do this to your older Kindle Fire, know that you're definitely voiding what's left of your warranty, and though I've had no major issues with the tools above, you do run the risk of turning your tablet into a useless brick. If you need extra help, Liliputing has a pretty handy guide to get you through everything-bear in mind, however, the standard warnings about rooting tablets. A CyanogenMod-based version is actively maintained, but I prefer the older Hashcode ROM, which is very similar to the interface on the Nexus 7. The Kindle Fire Utility boils the whole rooting process down to a couple of steps, and from there it's pretty easy to find pretty-stable Jelly Bean ROMs. Luckily, the Fire's low price and popularity relative to other Android tablets has made it a common target for Android's bustling open-source community, which has automated most of the sometimes-messy process of rooting and flashing your tablet. If you have any particular complaints about the way your older Fire works or acts, that's too bad, because it's the end of the line.
If you purchased a Kindle Fire at any point before Amazon refreshed the lineup in September, I've got bad news for you: none of the improvements made to the software used by the 2012 Kindle Fire and the Kindle Fire HD are going to be brought to your tablet.
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