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I'm very on the fence with it. I have the new M4 13 and want to love it. The screen is incredible. hover effects with the pencil and the haptic squeeze all are
by schwers 2y ago
I'm very on the fence with it. I have the new M4 13 and want to love it. The screen is incredible. hover effects with the pencil and the haptic squeeze all are very nice touches. It's very impressive that you can run logic pro on it.
But I'm simultaneously very disappointed. I started up logic pro, put in a chord progression on their new chord track and created 4 session AI players to make a little band going. I used their default instrument and fx plugins that came with each session players style, and the only tweak I made was to turn on side-chain compression off the AI drummer track i created. letting this loop on a 8 bar pattern for a little bit quickly maxes out the cpu and the ipad gets hot as hell until the logic alerts that it's doing too much and refuses to run unless i either freeze tracks manually or let it do so. 4 tracks thats ridiculously low.
So I tried running Github code-spaces in-browser for a bit to see how that experience is, and while it was nice at first, I could see a next.js app running in a preview and run shell commands etc. However many many times the layout got messed up by scroll position of the browser, which is pretty locked down in the GH CS layout to begin with, so its tricky to resolve it without randomly scrolling in different places/panes hoping it fixes itself. My muscle memory for cmd-w to close editor panes backfires because its (obivously) in a web browser. I was lucky because I made it a pinned-tab in safari so it didn't really close. But when you actually close the tab and try to re-open it GH CS can get in a weird state where it doesn't seem to boot or connect to the backing instance node.
All-in-all it still feels like just a toy. Even the prosumer use cases like Logic Pro, that Apple officially supports, seems like it doesn't really work the way I'd expect it to.