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I’m really on board with this. A few weeks back I was given a 1st gen iPad Pro and quite frankly it stank and the pencil was deceased but I saw the potential an
by m0xte 6y ago
I’m really on board with this. A few weeks back I was given a 1st gen iPad Pro and quite frankly it stank and the pencil was deceased but I saw the potential and the integration opportunities. So after futzing with one and working out the edge cases, face mask clad in the local Apple store, I bought a 2020 iPad Pro a couple of weeks back and have migrated everything other than programming to it. It really does perform ridiculously well on non trivial stuff and I can see where the desktop can go with this sort of hardware. And that’s 1-2 revisions behind the state of the art Apple silicon now. My laptop has been handed over to my eldest now for school work. Don’t need it any more.
The thing that got me was everything useful is almost all there ready to go on this architecture and it works and it’s extremely fast. I suspect it’s going to be a short two years. The only thing that worries me is higher end compute and I suspect there’s going to be a hard division somewhere and it’s going to have a large price disparity.
But really I am pleasantly surprised which is unusual as I’m usually a miserable pessimist.