The OLED iPad will just not produce that much better results than my current iPad Pro to justify the price.
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Agreed. The current iPP display is beautiful and this will be a minimal improvement.
Yeah, I decided to get a Thunderbolt 4 hub (Belkin one)… it was that or the Satechi one.
So, this gives me more additional ports… I have a carrying case to travel with, I like the fact I need only one plug and it powers the iPad, portable monitor, phone and I can hook up external storage.
But on the topic of the thread…
Well, I‘m curious what Apple has in it’s plans for this supposedly redesign… my current M1 iPad Pro is perfectly capable of doing my current tasks thus there is nothing in terms of performance I’m seeking.
Could Apple unlock two external display support for the next iPad Pro similar to what they did for the M3 MacBooks, but I don’t see that being a motivating factor for me. At this point, Apple is betting on OLED to push people to upgrade and I’m really anxious to see what that looks like…. I think we get StandBy mode with iPadOS 18 because of OLED support.
Ditto. I have the M1 iPad Pro and love it. But it has some product-wide limitations. Gotta bring the noise and fix those nagging problems to get me to switch, because I wanna lock in freshness for years.
But the USB-C port on the keyboard is only for power. It can’t do anything else.
I hope to upgrade from my m1 11" pro with some graduation gift money, regardless. (Screen is slightly cracked in corner.) I'm excited for m3/4, and OLED, as well as smaller size and, I hope, weight. (Titanium?) But I would love to see an ip68 rating. I can't be the only person who enjoys using my iPad in a bathtub or hot tub, and I'd prefer to do it with less fear.
The only times I’ve found the Magic Keyboard to accidentally disconnect have been when my iPad Pro 11” is misaligned (operator error). It’s a much more reliable connection than the older Apple iPad keyboards.
Most of my current iPads are getting pretty long in the tooth, but the main thing for getting the M4 is after making sure it's actually been fixed in-die, not via mitigations.
Otherwise anything with an M chip isn't worth buying right now.
On that note, the (lack of) coverage over that is interesting. You couldn't move for Spectre coverage, but when it comes to Apple, crickets despite it being just as catastrophic
Otherwise anything with an M chip isn't worth buying right now.
On that note, the (lack of) coverage over that is interesting. You couldn't move for Spectre coverage, but when it comes to Apple, crickets despite it being just as catastrophic
Yea, it is pretty low level, no getting away from that with what it’s doing! It won’t need your appleID deets, but will need your system password to apply the patches.
There’s always the option of installing a patched version of the os on an external drive/separate partition for testing. It’s pretty widely known/used so I imagine if there were any glaring security issues they’d be widely reported. Anecdotally I’ve been running it on 3 different machines over the last 4 years or so and have yet to be hacked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, fixing the hardware security vulnerabilities is important, and I’m not sure Apple can do something about it with M4 generation, because the design was probably done when the vulnerability was discovered/published.
And, yes, I agree with you, there hasn’t been too much noise regarding this compared to Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities.
I feel like a MacBook Air would be better for that. The m1 airs are pretty cheap and may be worth it for you
I am pretty sure the 2024 iPad Pro will have M3. Which is unfortunate because that means it will only support Wi-Fi 6E. It’s possible Apple products with M4 will come with Wi-Fi 7 later this year.
agreed. But i think apple’s line of thinking is ‘hey. Want an iPad that kinda feels pro ish without being pro? Get the new 12.9 inch iPad Air for cheaper”
Longer battery life would probably be my single biggest ask.
A second usb c port would also be great for me, it sometimes gets used with an older Native Instruments Tractor audio interface that lacks power over usb c.
As it stands my iPad is probably my most used device: I use it for reading academic papers, white papers, analyst reports for work, idle web browsing when not at work, finally it controls my HiFi (a Naim streamer) throughout the day and plays ambient noise when I try to sleep at night. I don't really use it in my home music studio as it's a faff with dongles to keep power on while also giving audio out (although using it to control logic loops is sometimes a great addition to my workflow).
A second usb c port would also be great for me, it sometimes gets used with an older Native Instruments Tractor audio interface that lacks power over usb c.
As it stands my iPad is probably my most used device: I use it for reading academic papers, white papers, analyst reports for work, idle web browsing when not at work, finally it controls my HiFi (a Naim streamer) throughout the day and plays ambient noise when I try to sleep at night. I don't really use it in my home music studio as it's a faff with dongles to keep power on while also giving audio out (although using it to control logic loops is sometimes a great addition to my workflow).
Man, the more I use my M2 11” iPad Pro the more I love it as a portable device, more than a MacBook. I had never imagined myself saying this 5 years ago, when I still relied on my old 2010 13” MacBook Pro. I wish Apple could give us a more hybrid solution to be able to keep using it as an iPad outside my home, and as a more desktop oriented machine in home, when plugged to an external display.
Reminder to my future self: If I end up getting a new iPad Pro, 128GB is becoming too constraint for my use and, specially, for future uses, when I’ll have to grab more data with it. Last year I was tempted to get the 256GB model but because of the screen (different manufacturer), I ended up with the 128GB one. However, I don’t think 256GB would be enough either so I’d probably should go for, at least, the 512GB one.
The bright side of having a 128GB model, if there’s any is that at least it forces me to make regular backup, so the risk of losing data is minimized. If I had a more storage iPad I could really lose tons of valuable data if it broke up.
Reminder to my future self: If I end up getting a new iPad Pro, 128GB is becoming too constraint for my use and, specially, for future uses, when I’ll have to grab more data with it. Last year I was tempted to get the 256GB model but because of the screen (different manufacturer), I ended up with the 128GB one. However, I don’t think 256GB would be enough either so I’d probably should go for, at least, the 512GB one.
The bright side of having a 128GB model, if there’s any is that at least it forces me to make regular backup, so the risk of losing data is minimized. If I had a more storage iPad I could really lose tons of valuable data if it broke up.
The only thing that would get me to upgrade is a major upgrade to the software. Everything iPadOS has been upgraded with so far has mostly been lipstick on a pig. Stage Manager is nice, but you are still running iOS apps. Files looks usable, but try and drag a folder around and you'll immediately want to go back to a mac. Still no terminal access.
I really don't know how they can fix it on the current trajectory of iPadOS. In my opinion the best option would be a dual booting device, that ran macOS in a virtual machine when you wanted to do more power user things (Accessing the same filesystem as iPadOS.)
M4 is just not useful in iPadOS unless you use final cut, it will just be wasted 95% of the time.
Don't get me wrong - I still love my iPad for "iPad Things" - email, web browsing, youtube, reminders, calendar, notes. But beyond that iPadOS is holding the system back from anything more than that.
I really don't know how they can fix it on the current trajectory of iPadOS. In my opinion the best option would be a dual booting device, that ran macOS in a virtual machine when you wanted to do more power user things (Accessing the same filesystem as iPadOS.)
M4 is just not useful in iPadOS unless you use final cut, it will just be wasted 95% of the time.
Don't get me wrong - I still love my iPad for "iPad Things" - email, web browsing, youtube, reminders, calendar, notes. But beyond that iPadOS is holding the system back from anything more than that.
Just get a Mac.
I want an OLED iPad for watching video, because that's largely what the iPad is for.
Yes, maybe I should edit the title. I don’t think Apple is releasing an M4 device as soon a May.
This oversimplification of what Apple Silicon is for is extremely annoying and needs to stop being repeated. Why is it that forum members' imagination is limited to maxing out the CPU when discussing what a new chip is used for in an iPad? This idea that "unless you're encoding video you don't need a newer chip" is simply wrong.