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The keynote implied it, but Stage Manager/Windows and Display Scaling only works on M1 iPads per the footnotes on the product page.

deergomoo 4y ago
Completely expected but still quite lame considering I could do more multitasking on an old Mac with a dual core i5 and 4 gigs of RAM. My 2020 iPad Pro has an A12Z and 6 gigs of RAM, gating off access to the new stuff completely feels very artificial.
- hollandheese 4y ago
  >I could do more multitasking on an old Mac with a dual core i5 and 4 gigs of RAM. I could do more multitasking on a 486SLC/33 with 4MB of memory. > My 2020 iPad Pro has an A12Z and 6 gigs of RAM, gating off access to the new stuff completely feels very artificial. I have that iPad Pro as well, and I'm infuriated. Looking at the Surface line to replace it. Apple's strung me on too long with the iPad Pro.
gumby 4y ago
Also on Macs! I doubt I will use it but my mum may find it easier -- she only uses a few apps.
- FireBeyond 4y ago
  But only M1 Macs? Oof. I bought a 2019 Mac Pro with a 12 core processor and 192GB of memory, but apparently... not good enough. That's harsh, under 3 years later.
  - gumby 4y ago
    This is what drove Apple to design their own processors. You were just unlucky enough to be on the trailing edge.
    - smoldesu 4y ago
      Ironically, Apple's memory controllers are also "not good enough" to compete with Intel's offerings from 3 years ago. It's a real Mexican-stand-off situation here.
      - gumby 4y ago
        Can you expand on this? The ARM and x86 don’t have the same memory barriers so MP is different, but I’m not sure that’s what you’re getting at (it’s an instruction semantics issue non memory controller). I used to think that Intel had the edge in sustained multi core processing but now I’m not so sure.
        smoldesu 4y ago
        Apple hasn't made an Apple Silicon Mac that really pushes the boundaries in terms of memory. The most kitted-out machine you can get caps out at 128GB, which is kinda chump-change once you get into the research/professional industry Apple is targeting. Judging by the language at WWDC, this is definitely a memory controller issue.
    - FireBeyond 4y ago
      No, I'm all for Apple designing their own processors. But you can't tell me there's anything magical about Stage Manager that can only be implemented on aarch64, not x64.

deergomoo 4y ago

Completely expected but still quite lame considering I could do more multitasking on an old Mac with a dual core i5 and 4 gigs of RAM. My 2020 iPad Pro has an A12Z and 6 gigs of RAM, gating off access to the new stuff completely feels very artificial.

hollandheese 4y ago
>I could do more multitasking on an old Mac with a dual core i5 and 4 gigs of RAM. I could do more multitasking on a 486SLC/33 with 4MB of memory. > My 2020 iPad Pro has an A12Z and 6 gigs of RAM, gating off access to the new stuff completely feels very artificial. I have that iPad Pro as well, and I'm infuriated. Looking at the Surface line to replace it. Apple's strung me on too long with the iPad Pro.

gumby 4y ago

Also on Macs! I doubt I will use it but my mum may find it easier -- she only uses a few apps.

FireBeyond 4y ago
But only M1 Macs? Oof. I bought a 2019 Mac Pro with a 12 core processor and 192GB of memory, but apparently... not good enough. That's harsh, under 3 years later.
- gumby 4y ago
  This is what drove Apple to design their own processors. You were just unlucky enough to be on the trailing edge.
  - smoldesu 4y ago
    Ironically, Apple's memory controllers are also "not good enough" to compete with Intel's offerings from 3 years ago. It's a real Mexican-stand-off situation here.
    - gumby 4y ago
      Can you expand on this? The ARM and x86 don’t have the same memory barriers so MP is different, but I’m not sure that’s what you’re getting at (it’s an instruction semantics issue non memory controller). I used to think that Intel had the edge in sustained multi core processing but now I’m not so sure.
      - smoldesu 4y ago
        Apple hasn't made an Apple Silicon Mac that really pushes the boundaries in terms of memory. The most kitted-out machine you can get caps out at 128GB, which is kinda chump-change once you get into the research/professional industry Apple is targeting. Judging by the language at WWDC, this is definitely a memory controller issue.
  - FireBeyond 4y ago
    No, I'm all for Apple designing their own processors. But you can't tell me there's anything magical about Stage Manager that can only be implemented on aarch64, not x64.