The significance of pro motion...

[kristalsoldier]

I'm pretty much the lone hold-out in thinking that ProMotion is little more than a gimmick to stir up sales. Yes, having ProMotion is nicer than not having it, but I won't pay extra for it.

iPads used to have buttery smooth performance... until iOS 7. Then people began noticing hiccups and stutters in UI animations. Those complaints hung around until the introduction of ProMotion. Apple took something way only to reintroduce it as a "feechur" later on.

I find it funny (in an odd way) how the 1st gen iPad Pros (without ProMotion) had great performance and minimal latency with the Pencil and were often praised as superior to the Surface and Surface Pen... but as soon as the 2nd gen Pros were released with ProMotion, suddenly, the 1st gens were viewed as laggy, blurry messes that were barely usable with the Pencil.

I understand that everyone else loves ProMotion and is an important feature for them. My view of ProMotion is NOT a commentary on those people...only on ProMotion itself.

By saying that, despite your caveat, you are making an implied comment on such folks though. But whatever.

 

[rui no onna]

iOS on a 60 Hz screen has NEVER been as smooth as iOS on a ProMotion screen. Never. I have had iPads ever since the iPad 2, with iOS 4. And I've had iPhones ever since the iPhone 3G, with iOS 2.

Yep. Had iPhones since the original in 2007 and iPads since the iPad 2 and none are as smooth as ProMotion-enabled iPads. I actually still have an iPad 4 on iOS 6 (arguably the smoothest combination of hardware and firmware pre-iOS 7) and there's just no comparison. Even the iPad 5th gen on iOS 12 is noticeably snappier.

 

[ahostmadsen]

I didn't notice pro-motion at first. Even the employees at Best Buy couldn't convince me.
Later, when I finally saw pro-motion & how much better it looked, I can't unsee it.
Go to a web page with text. Start reading while scrolling the page up & down.
On a pro-motion screen, you can still read the text while scrolling.
It's not perfect though. A higher refresh rate would be nicer.
Now, try reading text while scrolling on a non pro-motion screen. It's a blurry mess.
Pro-motion makes scrolling look a lot smoother. Web pages don't blur.
(I don't own a pro-motion iPad)

I tried to compare with me old iPad, and this is indeed true. But I feel this is a quite insignificant feature. First, it is not that there is no blur with pro-motion. And second, I don’t read the text until it stops anyway.

 

[tps3443]

It's like switching to SSDs. At first you don't notice much difference upgrading to SSD. After a few months of using SSDs, going back to HDD is a pain.

If all you're used to are HDDs, though, you can't miss what you never had.

Yep, m.2 ssd drives have become very cheap, and readily available. It’s a much better experience

 

[rui no onna]

Yep, m.2 ssd drives have become very cheap, and readily available. It’s a much better experience

Lol, I'm still using SATA SSDs. I don't believe any of my computers support NVMe.

I switched all my OS drives once SSDs reached ~$2/GB and the only upgrades I've done on my PCs was to higher capacity SSDs. I'm on the iPad for the most part and have no need for a top of the line PC just to run Calibre, iTunes or even Plex server.