iPad Pro iPad Pro 4gb vs 6gb

[TheRealAlex]

I'm new to iPads. I ordered a Pro 512gb and shortly after learned that the 1tb has 6gb of ram.

Has anyone been able to compare the two to see if there are performance differences? Is 6gb clearly the way to go? If so I'll return the 512 and get the 1tb. I don't understand why Apple doesn't make this clear in specs. Seems like 2gb difference would be something worth mentioning.

I’ll gladly wait for the 2021 iPad Pro, with Thunderbolt 3 Speeds USB-C, 8GB RAM and 256GB storage
And A14X 12 Core CPU.

Right now 6GB RAM is useless

 

[spacemanjupiter]

I decided to go with the 1tb model for the extra 2 gigs. The extra storage doesn’t hurt either. It will be here Saturday so now I just need to find some useful accessories and apps, especially creative or artist related.

 

[Cnasty]

I decided to go with the 1tb model for the extra 2 gigs. The extra storage doesn’t hurt either. It will be here Saturday so now I just need to find some useful accessories and apps, especially creative or artist related.

You and me both! ASK or not or case or sleeve. So many options and no clue where to start.

 

[RevTEG]

Way too annoying before for a lot of people to do real work on an iPad before, myself included. The very big deal is proper external storage support in iPadOS.

Yes, you could get around this before, but that's just it: You had to deal with annoying workarounds.

I completely agree with you but a lot of people are doing real work on iPads and the work arounds are not work arounds to them. It’s just their normal workflow. For many people, especially younger people just entering the computer world, the iPad workflow is their normal workflow. Sounds crazy but I’m seeing this more and more with students each passing year. Most of the world isn’t writing code. Some of this just boils down to being comfortable with what we’ve grow accustoming to using in the past.

 

[EugW]

I completely agree with you but a lot of people are doing real work on iPads and the work arounds are not work arounds to them. It’s just their normal workflow. For many people, especially younger people just entering the computer world, the iPad workflow is their normal workflow. Sounds crazy but I’m seeing this more and more with students each passing year. Most of the world isn’t writing code. Some of this just boils down to being comfortable with what we’ve grow accustoming to using in the past.

I'm not sure it's just about age. It's about usage environment.

An average's student's needs are often very, very different from someone working in a public corporation for example, regardless of age. Furthermore, if you look at the online reviews of the 2018 iPad Pros, the number one complaint about them is about external storage, regardless if the reviewers are 25 or if the reviewers are 55. Not everyone complained of course, but a very large chunk of the population did.

The problem with the iPads was that Apple had designed them to work a specify and restrictive way, alienating a large chunk of other people. iPadOS 13 largely fixes this. Judging by the history of the OS and judging by some of the executives' comments about this, they did this begrudgingly. For years and years Apple tried to make everyone fit into that very restrictive workflow, and people just continued to complain. Finally Apple has capitulated and admitted that not everyone can comfortably work that way, even if they actually wanted to.

tl;dr:

Yeah, if I were a student, I'd largely be fine with my iPad Pro, and would get real work done on it.

However, I am most definitely not a student. My needs are very, very different, and I represent a large chunk of the population too. iPadOS goes a long, long way to address some of the issues preventing us from comfortably using the iPad as a productivity device.