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It doesn’t move the needle for me to purchase it. My m1 iPad Pro still does everything I want it to and I don’t use it that often, but when I do I love it.
by daft_pink 2y ago
It doesn’t move the needle for me to purchase it. My m1 iPad Pro still does everything I want it to and I don’t use it that often, but when I do I love it.
- etchalon 2y agoThe curse of Apple Silicon. Everything's basically "fast enough" already.
- divan 2y agoI have iPad Pro from 2020 (pre M1). It's still way faster than I need (most heavy work I do on laptop) and still unbelievably good. The only thing I miss is the ability to read under the bright sun. New Tandem screen unlikely to change it, so I'm opting in for 13.3" e-paper tablet. As I often read academic papers, that should be a killer one, but new 13" iPads also look promising for that!
- cjk2 2y agoI have the same problem. I still print mine out and read them on paper. Low tech but it's the best experience.
- divan 2y agoI ordered Onyx Boox Tab X – seems to be the only real option out there. It has Android, so it's possible to use your favorite reader/app on it (I'm using ReadCube Papers). Can't wait to try it.
- cjk2 2y agoThat's a good point actually. I can't seem to even bend my M1 Pro MBP. It just eats everything I throw at it and shrugs. It's coming up to 3 years old now and looks like and works like the day it was made.
- ailurooo 2y agoyeah.. it's amazing how much time and money is thrown at these new cpu's with such tiny diminishing returns for the end consumer. I wish we could do like a 4 year cycle of progress where engineers had longer cycles to innovate and like make a comprehensive upgrade rather than wasting all of these materials for a 10% upgrade that no one will notice.
- kraig911 2y agoI wanted the new apple pencil pro but it only works on the new ipads :( I have the m2 ipad pro. Literally there's no need but I love to draw on mine and that pencil with the accelerometer and gyroscope sounds amazing in procreate. I think we'll start seeing artwork where you can see the difference in brush work.
- daft_pink 2y agoI think if you do a lot of drawing it makes sense, but otherwise not really. The only reason I bought the pro was for Face ID and it's a great product, but generally I need a Mac to complete any real work.
- jmspring 2y agoAn M4 in an iPad. It feels like the hardware between an M* Macbook Air and the M* iPads is really about the same (maybe screen differences, a keyboard) and memory. That said, the real hinderance / differentiator(?) is what the OS allows you to do with the device.
- dj_gitmo 2y agoDoes anyone game on iPad? I see the sell controllers, but what am I supposed to do with all these GPUs?
- minimaxir 2y agoThe megapopular free-to-play Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail (same devs) make full use of the Apple Silicon iPads. My M1 gets pretty hot when playing either at high settings. Not enough to make it worth upgrading to a M4, of course. Call of Duty: Warzone literally makes my fingertips hurt after one match and the graphics still aren't great. Apple is pushing more for triple-A games being ported to the iPad (like Assassin's Creed they demoed), but it's a chicken-and-egg problem monetizationwise.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 2y agoThe only thing that has me thinking 'ah that would be nice' over my m1 version is that it's lighter, especially with the new magic keyboard. With the keyboard, mine is heavy as hell. Frustratingly, I can't find a weight spec for the magic keyboards, so I have no idea whether it's significantly lighter or what.