I have a 2020 IPad Pro.... I think a 13" IPad Air would be perfect for me. I just worry I will miss the ProMotion display.
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You would at first but your eyes adapt back to 60Hz soon enough. At least that's what happens with my eyes. It will look very sluggish at first though.
Pricey for a locked down appliance not even a general purpose computer.
$4057 including taxes in Sweden, $3971 in Germany. And Apple is wondering why the iPad sales go down.
Complain about price all you want, Apple invented the tablet as we know it and continues to push innovation forward for the tablet industry. Credit where it's due.
It’s less about “best tablet tech” and more about professional Photographers and videographers and other artists creating their work.
iPad Air is still targeted towards content consumption, instead of creation.
How odd. Just remove and leave same design. How much could this save if trying to keep cost down. The iPad isn’t the most used for pictures bur still. Once again, Apple still will not release a product with all available tech. Removing something that was already incorporated, wow.
I know Tim will never allow this because revenue from two devices is better than one. But... make a Magic Keyboard with enough internals to create a MacPad as per the link below (the iPad's M4 chip will be the SOC, the keyboard has the connections and whatever else Apple needs to provide (RAM w/ MacOS). Let's say the MacPad Magic Keyboard is $1000. I would love, LOVE this product with the new 13 IPP. Please, please if any Apple PMs are reading this, try to do something really innovative and focused on your hard-core professional users (I might qualify). Link:
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MacPad: How I Created the Hybrid Mac-iPad Laptop and Tablet That Apple Won’t Make
It all started because I wanted a better keyboard for my Vision Pro. I had no idea that, in looking for one, I’d accidentally create the hybrid Apple computer of my dreams. As I quickly discovered after working on the Vision Pro daily, you can get by without an external trackpad, but a keyboard is
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Not exactly. When you look closely Air is now "Pro light". You get all the features from Pencil Pro, the hover feature (previously only in M2 Pro), and all other M2 chip features. Air M2 is basically the same as M2 Pro, the only things missing are 120Hz and XDR (12.9") which for creation doesn't make a difference.
NPU: Still Lower than Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite (Plus or Elite) ?
Memory BW: Still Lower than Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite (Plus or Elite)?
8 GB of RAM?? REALLY?
AV1: Not clear if it supports AV1 Encoding, I guess not for now, Qualcomm does ... 4K AV1 Encode and Decode
Thinner Ipad Pro? Personally I do not care.
They had to clarify, better than any PC shipping Today because in a few weeks there will be tons of PCs with the Qualcomm Snapdragon ....
I think they should have done more but the reason I will not buy it is the 8 GB of RAM, that's a joke that is not funny anymore.
Memory BW: Still Lower than Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite (Plus or Elite)?
8 GB of RAM?? REALLY?
AV1: Not clear if it supports AV1 Encoding, I guess not for now, Qualcomm does ... 4K AV1 Encode and Decode
Thinner Ipad Pro? Personally I do not care.
They had to clarify, better than any PC shipping Today because in a few weeks there will be tons of PCs with the Qualcomm Snapdragon ....
I think they should have done more but the reason I will not buy it is the 8 GB of RAM, that's a joke that is not funny anymore.
Wait until people figure out they can buy a 2024 5 series BMW starting at about $58,000 or, with all the options, around $87,000 (that's not counting dealer-specific addons).
Nah - Inferior screen and outdated chip. (I’m trolling a bit on that last one - but seriously, iPads are much more fun to use For me)
And for most professional users - buy a windows Machine
Serious questions for you that I want you to answer?
1. Does something with the Snapdragon Elite run iPadOS?
2. Does the NPU in the Qualcomm Snapdragon out-perform the M4 in real world usage (or in any benchmarks)?
3. Would you really buy the iPad Pro if it had 12 GB or 16 GB of RAM? For the record, you can get an iPad Pro with 16 GB of RAM.
Also, yes, the M4 does AV1 decoding.
iPad Pro - Technical Specifications
See full technical specifications for iPad Pro — resolution, size, weight, battery life, and storage capacity — for Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + Cellular models.
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Apple M4 chip
- Models with 256GB or 512GB storage:
- 9-core CPU with 3 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores
- 10-core GPU
- Hardware-accelerated ray tracing
- 16-core Neural Engine
- 120GB/s memory bandwidth
- 8GB RAM
- Models with 1TB or 2TB storage:
- 10-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores
- 10-core GPU
- Hardware-accelerated ray tracing
- 16-core Neural Engine
- 120GB/s memory bandwidth
- 16GB RAM
- Hardware-accelerated 8K H.264, HEVC, ProRes, and ProRes RAW
- Video decode engine
- Video encode engine
- ProRes encode and decode engine
- AV1 decode
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They had to compare to what exists today because they lack time travel technology.
Still, I'm looking forward to the shakeup of the new Snapdragons in the PC market. Those guys deserve some good news.
iPad could have 128GB of RAM and currently, it would not make any difference. ipadOS barely utilizes even that base 8GB.
