Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
I agree on not adopting first gen display technology. I haven’t had any horrible experiences per se, but it’s my opinion that the current iPad display is already quite nice.
I was greatly underwhelmed by Promotion. I con't imagine mini led is going to significantly affect my ipad experience
[automerge]1586708259[/automerge]
you Roasted him.
How was I 'roasted'?
[automerge]1586708575[/automerge]
Did you make some bad experiences with that in the past?
ipad 3 yellow screen
 
Last edited:
Honestly, the RAM would be cool, but is not necessary now nor will it be for many moon years.
Having faster PCIE Flash storage is great, but again, it’s not really game changing, but just an improvement over what Apple uses now.

game changer would be in the battery life and type of display tech coming, the other would be a 5nm or 3nm processor that is not just faster than most PCs, but one that is 12x more powerful and able to run an iMac Pro or MacBook Pro.
An iPad with 16GB of RAM would be cool, but absolute overkill and pointless unless it has the processing power, capability, and access to full professional grade applications that laptops and desktops do.
But also Apple would need to change the already amazing storage management on iOS, iPadOS, and Mac OS they have. Like they’d have to downgrade way far (like to a system like android or windows.)
But as it stands right now, even an iPad with 2GB of RAM is still much more reliable and longer lasting than a Samsung phone with a snapdragon processor and 12GB of RAM.


just my opinion, ifanyone @Me... civil discussion, please. 😉👍✌
I think the super fast SSD on the PS5 shows that faster storage can still make a big difference in system performance. I was very impressed with the UE5 demo where they said the PS5 was loading visual data straight from the SSD because it was fast enough not to need to load it into RAM first. I could see something like that being really useful on iPad. One justification that Apple has made with keeping RAM limited is that you are alway paying a power penalty for RAM, regardless if you need it. An SSD that can operate at a full 2.5GB/s (5GB compressed) would let Apple implement a kind of memory paging strategy with minimal lag.
 
I think the super fast SSD on the PS5 shows that faster storage can still make a big difference in system performance. I was very impressed with the UE5 demo where they said the PS5 was loading visual data straight from the SSD because it was fast enough not to need to load it into RAM first. I could see something like that being really useful on iPad. One justification that Apple has made with keeping RAM limited is that you are alway paying a power penalty for RAM, regardless if you need it. An SSD that can operate at a full 2.5GB/s (5GB compressed) would let Apple implement a kind of memory paging strategy with minimal lag.
The iPad's storage is pretty fast in terms of sequential speeds (they've used PCIe since A9, iirc). It's random I/O that's still not up to par with high end NVMe SSDs.

One thing to note, high end SSDs tend to include 1GB RAM per 1TB storage for performance.
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.