I'm glad I didn't spoil it for you
I don't know why I'm sensitive to any edge defects/oddities, but I always have been. Non uniform backlights bug me too- that used to be incredibly common, but now much less so. My first iPhone 4 and iPhone 6 both developed yellowing on the left edge of the screen (a common glue issue once upon a time), and I swapped them both.
I'm kind of wishing that the base M1 and the M1 Ultra weren't the ONLY options for four High Efficiency cores. Because - what if you were the kind of user who is doing Microsoft Office/Web Browsing/Basic Media consumption 6/7 of the time, but that remaining 1/7 of the time, you needed more than four high performance cores (let alone more than both the four high performance cores and the four high efficiency cores)? Seems sort of silly that for tasks using the high efficiency cores, the standard M1 would be more ideal than the M1 Pro.
What are you doing on an iPad that can consume that much RAM?
I have an 2018 pro, sometimes, specially now that I'm using some mask effects, I notice it slowing PRETTY hard on clip studio to the point of reloading the file if I check another app while using it, and this model has 4gb of ram only, I can see this happening even with a 8gb one, even if it will take longer to.
I wish they would let you choose 16 GB of memory on the 512 GB of storage models (and made clearer what the memory capacity was on the order page).
Yeah... I just bought a Mini M1 so I'm short on money, but if demand for my commissions increases I'm planning to purchase the Air M1 256 or the new 11 pro M1 128gb both cost the same here, I think 8gb is enough for me, I will see which one of them is cheaper when it comes the time to purchase.
I think you would have a hard time saturating 8GB with one app on an iPad. Until recently the maximum app RAM allocation was something like 5GB. I have the same 2018 iPP and never run into slowdowns but I don't do video production on it, like that.
The memory problem on iPads is mostly because of the way iPad OS kills and reloads apps. More memory seems to delay this unwanted behaviour for longer.
Clip studio (drawing app) is kinda weird, it works more like a mouse oriented pc/mac app than an ipad app, both in looks and feel, while procreate limits you on what you can do or not based on RAM/Model as to not affect performance and response, clip won't limit you, if you want to do a 10k x 10k canvas, it will allow you, ipad will craw but it won't limit you, I kinda like this more desktop approach they take even if it impact response, you can still finish what you have to do without limitations beside your raw hardware. On a file procreate would allow like 25 layers, I can go way above that on clip on the cost of responsiveness, IDK if it´s related to RAM (since there is this limit imposed by apple) or CPU, but clip has this characteristic on the way they handle system resources.
Wanna bet?
The MBA has a very constrained thermal envelope. Pushing lots of pixels with some sort of guaranteed baseline quality with a variety of apps is sure to cause issues. I see that as a technical limitation necessitating a deliberate choice to avoid a PR backlash. Apple seems to avoid adding functionality with caveats, which is IMHO more honest WRT user experience and expectations.
Agreed. Also, I think Apple could do some clever things WRT the fanless MBA thermal envelope (e.g. integrate vapor chambers into the chassis, plus use the screen body as a heat spreader and sink via pyrolytic graphite), but that would raise the price significantly and cannibalize MBP. Apple’s strategy seems sound to me.
Yes and no.
