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I was trying to think of a reason you'd need the full power of an M3 chip in an iPad...any ideas?
by alexfromapex 2y ago
I was trying to think of a reason you'd need the full power of an M3 chip in an iPad...any ideas?
- 42772827 2y agoNobody on earth needs an M3 in an iPad.
- haswell 2y ago640K of RAM should be enough for anyone.
- davidmurdoch 2y agoWhy not? Honest question.
- 42772827 2y agoBecause there’s nothing you can do on an M3 that you can’t do on an M2. Or M1.
- davidmurdoch 2y agoBut can't you do it faster on a faster processor?
- 42772827 2y agoIf shaving milliseconds off of your workflow is so mission critical that spending an additional few hundred to few thousand dollars is worth it, you don’t need a snarky HN post to tell you which iPad to buy. And I’m not convinced that person even exists except in their own minds.
- davidmurdoch 2y agoI read M4 is about 20% than M3 in editing photos from Lightroom. That's seems significant. I don't have skin in the game here, as I don't own anything from Apple. I was just curious.
- asow92 2y agoAs someone struggling to find the limits of his M2 iPad air, you don't.
- smith7018 2y agoHopefully 7 years from now you'll still be able to use it with modern apps, websites, and video content. IMO, The benefits of these chips are in longevity rather than pushing them to the limit today.
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- wlesieutre 2y agoI don't think there's any amount of processing power that can keep up with website bloat long term, but you out to get an extra year or two from the M3
- Marsymars 2y agoThis is the pretty obvious answer. I'm looking at replacing my gen-3 iPad Air from 2019 because it's feeling pretty pokey now. (And my wife's gen-1 iPad Air from 2013 is entirely unusable.)
- op00to 2y agoGaming and local LLM to name two specific things I use my m4 iPad Pro for. I have no idea if an M1 or whatever would have the same performance. I think it's really cool that I can have the same processor-ish in my laptop and my tablet, but that's not a reason to spend $2k.
- creaturemachine 2y agoTo sell more ipads.
- evilduck 2y agoSupply chain consolidation. Supplying newly manufactured iPads with chips no longer in production isn’t really a winning strategy. Honestly it’s a bit surprising they didn’t just jump to M4s since the iPad Pros debuted with that about a year ago.
- 42772827 2y agoI believe the “you” in the “you’d” that the comment refers to is the customer, and the customer certainly doesn’t “need” supply chain consolidation.
- evilduck 2y agoI mean, as a potential customer “you’d” probably like to be able to buy the product announced. Fitting new products with A15 or M1 chips that aren’t in production anymore will impact the ability to buy one unless Apple is sitting on a big stockpile of unused chips.
- ErneX 2y agoProbably those who do 3D modeling, sculpting, illustration video editing, photography etc.
- rchaud 2y agoBeats me, but in prior iPad release posts on HN, people would swear up and down that AR work would be a key use case, because Apple had put in an AR-capable camera in the Pro. These people have since moved on to posting fantastical visions of what the Apple Vision Pro will be capable of.
- bitmasher9 2y agoThat’s because if you’re on the forefront of AR you’re probably targeting Vision 2. The people doing AR work have moved on to different hardware.
- walterbell 2y agoMeta smart glasses are selling well. Apple smart glasses will arrive eventually, based on VisionOS.
- can16358p 2y ago3D design/sculpting, Procreate with many layers, intensive gaming, video editing. Though I agree most workflows aren't remotely capable software-wise compared to Mac counterparts.
- criddell 2y agoBecause you plan on keeping it for as long as possible. I'm still using my 2018 iPad Pro (it's my favorite computer to use).
- haswell 2y agoVideo editing apps like DaVinci Resolve will take advantage of this nicely, as will similar multimedia apps. Local AI models and gaming also come to mind.
- tannhaeuser 2y agoI wanted to say x86 (and PPC) emulation for gaming, but Apple doesn't allow JITing unfortunately.