This is a good idea. Currently Caps Lock is only good for being accidentally turned on and annoying me since my iPad keyboard doesn't have a CL light. LOL
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iPad The iPad is not for traditional Mac users
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I agree. Though I use Lightroom, I also have Affinity & Pixelmator and for the casual user, Pixelmator is a better choice for its simplicity.
I found that the Magic Mouse works nicely in my iPad. It works as it do in the desktop. The gestures, the buttons, the scrolling…
Do you use a mouse connected to your iPad?
Do you use a mouse connected to your iPad?
I've seen Cubasis and Cubase which is why I used it as an example, although I accept it's niche-interest. Cubasis is OK until you see the full-fat version of Cubase 11 on a PC or Mac.
Thanks for the info...I expected it must be possible by now, but didn't know for sure.
I don't think it would have been possible for you to more thoroughly misinterpret everything we have complained about.
Some people complained because they want dual-boot despite Apple likely preferring dual-OS.
Some people complained because they want dual-OS despite the majority of iPads not having enough RAM or a large enough SSD to support dual-OS.
Some people complained because they want developers to simply port Mac apps over to the iPad despite not only there being OS differences which would make simply porting apps impossible, not to mention a general lack of interest in porting simpler iPad apps over to MacOS.
Which complaints did I miss?
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In the end, Apple wins no matter what. People have been arguing passionately about iPad vs. Mac since 2010. No matter which way you think about it, you're probably going to eventually buy one or the other (or both) from Apple.
iPhone runs OSX. Mac runs OSX. iPad runs OSX.
They all run the same OS, just a bit tweaked in different ways and for different things.
Under the hood iPad already runs MacOS.
Can you explain how file system is different on iPad? People keep repeating this, but I find it to be quite wrong. What is so different in iPad’s filesystem than Mac’s? I’m in fact willing to bet its the exact same filesystem under the hood. And apps can request files form the filesystem, and get them - use them- save them - and so on. all the stuff you do on a Mac too. So, how is it different?
I’m moving in the opposite direction. At this point there’s only about 2% of my work/play that I need a Mac for. And I would be very happy if they would finally make it so I could do everything on my iPad and iPhone so I don’t have to buy another Mac when my current one dies.
Sure but now instead of spending ~$2000 for an iPad Pro I’ll be spending $800 for a iPad mini.
The most obvious difference is file locations which affect the Open/Save mechanism; iOS is sandboxed while MacOS isn't.
While everyone's got their own idea of a solution, the overarching theme is 'complainants' want the OS and available apps to match the significant power and technical capability of the hardware. There has been a significant air-gap between the two, debatably since as long ago as the A12 chip, or even earlier, depending on your point of view, but it is now a hole the size of the Grand Canyon since they put the M1 inside.
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Same exact thing I did. Got rid of the 12.9" iPad Pro, bought an M1 MacBook Air (then later an M1 Pro MacBook Pro) to replace it, and then filled the Apple Pencil gap with an iPad mini 6. It's a great combo.
Sure, people want a feature which mostly requires the 16GB/1TB 13" iPad Pro; hardly a big pool of devices for Apple to invest the resources into developing this feature.
I’m talking about the fact that there are many instances where you cannot use one file in another app. We can discuss it further when you get back from your vacation, hopefully you’ll be willing to speak more civilly at that time.
No. There is a whole stream of things I can do for example on my 2010 Mac Mini with a measly 4GB RAM running High Sierra that a modern iPad Pro cannot do. Have you looked at the Geekbench score differences between my ancient Mac Mini and a current M1 iPad Air? It's laughable: my Mac Mini has a single-core score of 323 and a multi-core score of 563. The M1 iPad Air has a single-core score of 1711 and 7233 for the multi-core.
So let's imagine a scenario where I only own my 2010 Mac Mini and a modern iPad Air: why do I have to use the infinitely-less-powerful machine to get access to a desktop-class OS capable of running full-fat desktop-class apps like Logic, Cubase, FCP, Premiere, Word, and Photoshop (to name just a few)? Why can I not do that on the iPad?
The answer is because Apple spends millions paying super smart people to figure out how to make them their billions in profit, and this is the end result.
The only part I don’t get is why end users are so against it.
What your 2010 Mac with 4GB RAM can run isn't relevant because we are discussing current software which is what would be ported. Since iPadOS limits RAM access and doesn't have swap try running anything demanding on your 2010 Mac with 2.5GB total RAM; heck people are upgrading their iPads because 4GB RAM still has application and browser reloads.
LogicPro recommends a quad core CPU and 16GB of RAM which means that the 1TB iPad minimum is required to give it 12GB RAM. From my experience LR on the M1 iPad is faster and more powerful than the version I can run on my old 2008 MBP, despite that MBP having "desktop-class" apps. Sound apps use a ton of drive space, LogicPro and Abeltopn can consume around 200GB with all the libraries, so add al the other desktop apps you might want, your documents, the OS, locally stored media and forget about anything under 512GB, but 512 only gives you 8GB RAM so you'd still need the 1TB iPad.
Adobe Creative Suite runs find on my old computers, but that doesn't mean I still want to use the old Creative Suite for work.
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I can’t say I agree with anything that you said nor the logic that you used.
But I do have to admit, this is much better than the logical conclusion you came to earlier that everyone wanted slower processors in their iPads.
Keep working on it.
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I said that the complainers would probably be happier with lower specs since the higher specs make them unhappy.
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Yes, and I’ll explain for the fifth time now that what you just said makes absolutely no sense and is not true. No one will be happier with lower specs and no one wants lower specs.
Let me try to explain this to you another way. Let’s say you had a super car with an 800 hp engine. But the car had a governor which restricted it to 55 mile per hour top speed. The owners of this car would complain about the limited top speed, they would be happy if that limit was removed. They would not be happy to have the engine changed out to a 100 hp engine. And it would be absolutely silly for someone to insinuate that
True, it's why I ended up with an iPad and Mac Mini, which I think is a solid combo depending on your needs.