Yes, thanks! If I don't, maybe I get something else, or I stay at a screenless pen tablet. Time will tell, I will stay flexible and adapt to the situation.
Yes, I know it is at least decent for Art and I am happy it works for you. I am sure that it is by no means a bad device. I am still not 100% convinced (no laminated screen, small screen,...). And before I am not 100% satisfied I prefer saving my money, because atm I am really short on that - and if I spend some, it has to be with maximum efficiency. So maybe saving and deciding against a pucharse right now isn't a bad idea.
If at some point you manage to save enough and/or you find a good deal, get the 2018 12.9, that would be the ideal device for you, but currently it's still very expensive....
Yes, because with the others Apple increased the core count (and by core count I mean the performance cores), (A8 2 - A8X 3, A10 2 - A10X 3, A12 2 - A12X 4), but for some reason with A9X they kept the 2 cores but bumped the clock speed (and graphic performance) significantly... And for some other reason, they started using the odd numbers only for iPhones since the A11... Still I believe that the X versions will be treated like the following non X version (e.g. A10X like A11), rather than like the same non X version in terms of OS upgrades...
Apple stopped supporting A6X and A6 at the same time, yet the A7 received two more major versions of iOS.
To reiterate...
This is a forum called MacRumors centered around... well... Apple rumors. Speculation should be expected.
Problem with A5(X) and A6(X) is that they were both 32bit chips so once Apple moved to IOS 11 they had to stop updating everything that was 32 bits...A7 was twice as fast as A6X so a massive upgrade, but had the same bottlenecking RAM. But again the main point vas the move to a 64bit OS, the rest was secondary.... So I don't think we can draw any conclusion from those SOCs.. If anything the much weaker A5 (which by the way had the exact same CPU power as A5X) was updated way too much to IOS 9, given the 512GB RAM it came with... So it was actually the opposite problem back then, too many updates for the what the SOC could handle... Back then however the main bottleneck was precisely RAM, more than CPU/GPU, this bottleneck has mainly lifted since the iPad Air 2, let alone the first pro...
iOS 10 supports 32-bit (A6 and A6X), but the A5 and A5X (also 32-bit) devices were stuck on iOS 9. As a result, what I said still applies to the A5 and A5X.
Leakers don't have any insider knowledge? 🤔no one here has any knowledge or inside on what apple does next.
It's not possible to draw any conclusion for A9 vs A9X vs A10 from looking at A5(X) and A6(X) and A7....
iOS 10 supports 32-bit (A6 and A6X), but the A5 and A5X (also 32-bit) devices were stuck on iOS 9. As a result, what I said still applies to the A5 and A5X.
Leakers don't have any insider knowledge?
Yeah I guess people like the 2018 so much that it is hard to find it on sale at a good price or refurbished (which probably mainly come from (the few) people trading in when upgrading to 2020 I guess).
they did, but the iPad 3 was discontinued long before the 2, which even outlasted the 4.... but Apple was obliged to upgrade it up to IOS 9 too, since it was technically a superior SOC, even if the iPad that had it had been discontinued for a while (because A5X could barely handle the iPad 3...)
Oh, okay. I misunderstood what you said.
What about the leakers that are always mentioned by MacRumors?
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No problem!Oh, okay. I misunderstood what you said.
What about the leakers that are always mentioned by MacRumors?
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Oh, okay. I misunderstood what you said.
What about the leakers that are always mentioned by MacRumors?
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