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>Counterbalancing anecdote: I've purchased every 12.9" iPad Pro model with my own money, and will keep doing so. >There's no better mobile daily driver compute
by TMWNN 3y ago
>Counterbalancing anecdote: I've purchased every 12.9" iPad Pro model with my own money, and will keep doing so.
>There's no better mobile daily driver computer value for dollar available today.
I experimented with using an iPad as a daily driver (web browser plus mosh/ssh sessions) some years ago, and iOS constantly unloading apps (even when briefly switching away from them), and not restoring state exactly, drove me nuts. Has iOS improved on this?
- wlesieutre 3y agoAlas, still sucks. Although my 2018 model has 4 GB of memory while the 2022 is now 8 (or 16 if you buy 1 or 2 TB version). So maybe that helps. There’s a special entitlement for apps to request additional RAM so I would hope that having more memory means more apps can stay resident, since most apps aren’t going to request extra RAM. But iOS seems really aggressive about this even when you wouldn’t think it should be a problem so I half expect it to know you have 12 GB available and still kill recently used apps.