Maybe they would offer the iPad Air in larger storage capacities if they discontinued the iPad Pro 11. Still not sure what the purpose of the LiDAR hardware is on the iPad “Pro” or iPhone 12 “Pro” Very few apps utilize it, and those that do seem rather clunky. Seems like a waste of space and waste of added cost. Tim and crew tout it for AR, but they’ve been touting AR for the past 5 years with no major breakthrough (no minor one either)
The form factor of the mini will be interesting, the other iPads suggest a shorter and wider footprint (assuming an ~8.5" display as rumoured) but being able to palm it one handed restricts how much wider they can go. The mini has also tended to have smaller bezels than other iPads, so can/ will it look even more edge to edge than the Pros?
Still a little bit ambiguous, but seems to confirm another leaker saying two sizes in the works:
www.macrumors.com
I'm now in the same boat. I downsized my MBP from 16" to 13" (I hated the size of the 16" -- too big). Now I feel the same with the iPad. 12.9" is too big. My next one will be 11". Now if they would just go back to the smaller iPhone models... ;-)
It's the top and bottom bezels that will get you the most added space. The iPad mini currently rocks a 7.9" display. Keeping the same footprint and going up to 8.5" or 8.6" is totally doable.
The 12.9" iPad and the 13" MacBook Air/Pro may be of similar size, but their uses and use cases still differ wildly. Just because the size is similar doesn't mean they ought to be compared as similar devices.
Everyone knows that. I'm not sure what your point is, since I wasn't comparing the devices in my post.
Assuming a move to the 1.43:1 aspect the 11" Pro and new Air have taken, a 8.5" display would gain a little over 3mm in width, which isn't a lot in itself, but the side bezels on the Pros are also thicker - about 2mm per side, so the device would be just over 7mm wider overall using iPP bezels. Doesn't sound like a lot, but I expect 3/4 of a cm would be noticeable, especially with a boxier design.
I was thinking this as well, I’ve had the 12.9, nice but really too large for me I like the 11” size but I guess it’s redundant with the air. Problem is they won’t offer the air with the larger disk size and I use mine as a comic reader and need a larger size to hold a bigger library
It keeps popping up in rumours from people with decent track records, sounds promising to land sometime next year. Mini LED for non-Pro models is interesting, I'd have thought it would be at least a 12 month Pro exclusive, but that's what they're saying:
www.macrumors.com
He didn't technically predict both iPads. He just didn't deny it when someone replying to him mentioned two codenames. I suppose that's optimistic. But it's not an outright claim from him that there will be two.
The comment you were replying to was making that claim. MacRumors forums doesn't do nested sub-threading, so I was continuing that sub-discussion.
hmmm yeah I mean if there was only one I would have expected him to say as such...more I think about it the more it doesn't make sense to drop the 11 inch pro seeing as I think the sales must be similar.
Mac dog pro owns a iPad Pro 11, he clearly said this in his statement, yet he recommends the Air 4 even though he doesn’t own one. Also in your sig it states you have a 2018 iPad Pro 256gb, which has 4gb of ram just like the iPad Air 4 (only the 1TB version of the 2018 pro has 6gb ram). Regarding the chips, the 5nm A14 chip in the Air 4 significantly outperforms the A12x by about 40% in single core performance. The A14 also has slightly higher Metal GPU scores on geekbench. Granted the A12x has a 10% better multi core score than the A14, but the A14 has more performance per watt due its 5nm die size and being 2 generations newer. The Pro 2018 obviously has promotion and quad speakers, which the Air 4 doesn’t!
More RAM, Promotion, more and better speakers, better cpu, better gpu, more storage... I think, if iPhone 12 6,1 and iPhone 12 Pro 6,1 has sense, also has the iPad Pro 11” vs Air
I agree with you, but there’s one factor that I think doesn’t make sense and that’s the 10.9” screen. If Apple really was going to phase out the 11”, why not just make the iPad Air 11”. 10.9“ is not an elegant spec and the increased bezel size is noticeable to anyone who compares the two. While I agree that ProMotion, Quad Speakers, and the performance gains could easily be waived off by Apple because people outside the tech sphere likely wouldn‘t notice or place much emphasis on those traits, the screen size does.
Haha I agree on the bezel thingy too! It’s so noticeable in my eyes, but some people just can’t belief the 0,1 inch difference is noticeable. Well it does! Haha.
that’s where I’m seeing the flaw in the recommendation.
