iPad Pro A14X and Thunderbolt 4 port rumors are nice but if it’s not 8GB RAM It’s a hard No

[Digitalguy]

Exactly. M1's nothing special on iPads. Just natural progression coming from the A12X/Z.

We've had excellent battery life, thermals and silence ever since the original iPad. Performance? A8X was a turning point and A9X is when they started closing the gap with current gen mobile Intel.

The Apple iPad Pro Review

www.anandtech.com

Yeah the first iPad pro is where Apple started to close the gap... by the way that article you quoted brings back memories... I am a regular reader of Anandtech and I wrote a huge comment underneath this article back then... (someone even called it a "wall of text"... ?)

 

[jeremiah256]

Same happened with A9X. You can't use 3 apps at the same time because the 9.7 pro only had 2GB and the system couldn't tell the 9,7 from the 12.9, which had enough RAM to do that...

Not true. The iPad Pro 9.7” does 3 apps no problem.

 

[Digitalguy]

Not true. The iPad Pro 9.7” does 3 apps no problem.

It doesn't... when you slide over a third app, you cannot interact with the other 2 in split screen... (and if you do, the 3rd goes away...)

 

[jeremiah256]

It doesn't... when you slide over a third app, you cannot interact with the other 2 in split screen... (and if you do, the 3rd goes away...)

Got it. You're right about that.

 

[ericwn]

Would you come close to filling that up?

Think of big photo or video libraries, it could happen.

 

[el-John-o]

I agree about the 8GB RAM, not so much about OLED... but we'll see how mini-led will do...
As for the USB, it's USB 4, technically not TB4, so the minimum specs are a bit lower, but not much since it includes TB3. Since iPad will not run external GPUs anyway, it's basically just as good...

Agreed. Other than marketing and cool logos, there's no practical purpose for Thunderbolt on an iPad Pro.

iOS and the iPad itself are not going to support PCI-express devices like external GPU's. If there was a demand for it, USB 4 (and even the current USB-C implementation) are fast enough for multi-gig ethernet networking, high speed data transfer to and from solid state storage, display outputs, you name it.

 

[rovex]

Slap Mac OS on there already. Any hardware additions are a complete waste otherwise.

 

[loybond]

I don't think it necessarily needs MacOS. If they cleaned up how certain things are done, e.g. file handling, added pro apps, found ways to do things people do on computers without having to resort to workarounds, it'd be a lot better.