Including the standard cover there is no difference in weight at all - or I need to ditch my digital kitchen scale.
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iPad Pro Returned M4 day after
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I am with the OP to some degree. When I first got an OLED screen iPhone, I was pumped for how much better the screen was going to be. When I compared it to my old iPhone, I was actually very underwhelmed.
The reason was because I was expecting it from one like my Lumia 900 windows phone which had an OLED screen. The colors were extremely vibrant and saturated. They are much more exaggerated than real life, but I loved it.
Apparently Apple specifically tones that down and goes for a natural color profile, so the colors don’t really “pop” like they normally do on OLED.
The reason was because I was expecting it from one like my Lumia 900 windows phone which had an OLED screen. The colors were extremely vibrant and saturated. They are much more exaggerated than real life, but I loved it.
Apparently Apple specifically tones that down and goes for a natural color profile, so the colors don’t really “pop” like they normally do on OLED.
Look, no offense intended bud, but it’s just a very old observation about the iPad Pro roadmap.
I went from a 2018 iPad the weight and size isn’t much different to be honest. Screen can’t see major changes. Landscape camera ok. I read a lot of people saying luxury purchase and many keeping older iPads. For me I don’t want the pencil or keyboard. I watch movies and use Safari that’s it. So I would say for that purpose any iPad older than an IPad 2 would do the job for most people. I mean it’s nice they made the iPad better but it does nothing over my 2018 iPad and I did leave myself skint to buy it. I seen a lack of deals on 2022 iPad that was why I went for the new one.
There’s some virtue in, as an expert, pointing out to consumers that at some point hardware iterations in iPad models are going to offer diminishing returns for the vast majority of users. I tend to agree that most people would not notice any difference at all in the performance between an M1 and an M4 iPad because most of the software on iPadOS isn’t that demanding.
Advocating for Apple to do more to make iPadOS capable makes sense; things like having a more capable file manager, better window management, the ability to support more than one external monitor, are the kinds of things one could reasonably argue for in a device like this.
Personally, I do not want iPadOS to fundamentally change, but iterative changes that make it more functional as a tablet with some laptop features would be welcome. I think Apple needs to lean a little bit more into the form factor they’re charging a lot for, but in general I am happy with iPadOS day-to-day.
At a practical level…video rendering (long process) pausing if you go and do other stuff…is a software limitation imposed by iPadOS not the M4 chip.
The more ridiculous power that exists in the processor hardware, the more significant that the OS limitations seem.
Hopefullly that will get fixed in an update.
Edit: apparently it doesn’t just pause the video render it cancels it. Dunno if that is true, but that was the commentary.
The more ridiculous power that exists in the processor hardware, the more significant that the OS limitations seem.
Hopefullly that will get fixed in an update.
Edit: apparently it doesn’t just pause the video render it cancels it. Dunno if that is true, but that was the commentary.
its called an opinion. if you dont like it, move on
Heck yeah. I love the change to OLED for all the reasons. Really loving the new screen.
Likewise. I don’t think it takes a genius to realise the new keyboard and other hardware changes are going to make the unchanged OS any better, if that’s holding you back. I am waiting for WWDC (and not expecting much).
What?! The point of "dark mode" is that its easier on the eyes during dark hours.What type of psycho reads in the dark with light text on a black background? Do you just hate your eyes?
A white background is brutal on the eyes at night, and brutal on the proverbial wife sleeping next to you.
Errr.. the only part that stood out from that comment is "wife sleeping."
After all the hype and honeymoon is over, I'm expecting lots of open box iPads to be returned once people realize that they just got ripped off on a product with very little improvement.
Ripped off? What did i miss? Personal accountability is fundamental for building character.
Little improvement from the 2015 model? The 2017 model? The 2018 model? The 2020 model? The 2021 model? The 2022 model?
You gotta be more specific.
It’s not true though, because there is iPad software that makes full use of the M-series chips, and conversely most Mac software does not require that power either.
What people really find lacking is that a lot of iPad apps are limited in functionality compared to the macOS version (but that’s for the app developers to fix), or not being available at all, and that the iPad UI and OS functions are limited compared to macOS, which in many cases is unrelated to the available computational power (e.g. window management, file management, background taks, text editing).
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TLDR: I bought a not-Mac and returned it because it wasn’t a Mac.