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Re: iPad Pro

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Post by georgeecollins »

SllX wrote: post #24

From the keynote, Cook claimed the new A12X Bionic[1] is faster than 92% of portable PCs[2] (in English, laptops, Surfaces) sold in the past year, including some i7 models. - 8 core CPU (4 low and 4 high power cores) - 7 core GPU - HEVC encoding/decoding - Neural Engine (they haven't made any comparisons to the A12 sans X neural engine, so at this point I think it's the same) - Audio DSP, Storage controller, Image Si…

Yet 90% of the apps that people will use on it are optimized for a phone with lower specs. If I use a laptop with GPU I know I am going to use games or productivity apps (Photoshop, modeling software) that uses the available computing power. With an iPad I am not so sure.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by sarreph »

Jgrubb wrote: post #18

The person who decided to make this scroll sideways instead of down when you scroll down, and not to scroll sideways when you scroll sideways should be put in stocks in the town square.

Maybe you didn't get the memo, but it's actually an early release of the 'new' way scroll.

Scrolling 1.0 = normal scrolling

Scrolling 2.0 = left/right up/down directions are inverted respectively

Scrolling 3.0 = left/right scrolling only, via up/down gestures (use left/right gestures at your peril)

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by eddieroger »

tjr wrote: post #183
reacharavindh wrote: post #139

Do you all use iPad for serious work? Curious what apps you use? Other than Apple Notes(with Apple Pencil), and watching NetFlix, I dont make good use of it. I'd love to get some recommendation for useful apps to try...

I mostly use it for displaying sheet music / band charts, and occasionally as a Presonus Studio One remote control. I think I would like to move to using Adobe Lightroom on the iPad.

What do you use for sheet music? I use ForScore with the Pencil, and it has been an amazing pairing that a magnet-mounted Pencil will only make better. One of my bandmates uses an Android tablet and generic stylus, and it's not even comparable how much better my setup is. I'm sure there are a dozen Android tablets with active styli, but I haven't seen them.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by ascagnel_ »

moolcool wrote: post #167
aikah wrote: post #97

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I'd argue while the UX is questionable (panning the page right to left while the user scroll down), the website loads pretty fast, which is a good thing, and the scrolling is smooth. The page also weights less than 14 MB. Here is an example of horrible UX plus horrible loading time plus janky scrolling brought you by Google. 60 seconds after the page was open the content of the top of the page was still not done load…

>less than 14 MB It's kind of crazy to me that even that's considered low

Since this is a product page, I wonder how much of that 14MB is binary data vs. how much is HMTL/JS/CSS. Binary stuff tends to inflate sizes by a pretty big amount, and 14MB wouldn't be big if you've got a lot of high-resolution hero shots. 14MB bundle size would be ridiculous, though.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by lwkl »

mkirklions wrote: post #38

Ive heard that its bad marketing to say things are bettER. BrightER, biggER, fastER. This is what I've seen Apple resort to over the last few years. This is very concerning for a luxury product manufacturer. However my reluctance to declare Apple 'myspace' is that there is a gigantic amount of resources and effort to change from the Apple ecosystem. A user likely wont gamble that a 400 dollar Android is going to be b…

Happy iPhone user since 2018 and no regrets so far. I used Android for 7 years before that and I don't miss the constant crashes and the bad customer service I had with my HTC and Samsung phones (both flagship phones that cost the same as an iPhone).

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Post by aikah »

ayoisaiah wrote: post #223
aikah wrote: post #97

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I'd argue while the UX is questionable (panning the page right to left while the user scroll down), the website loads pretty fast, which is a good thing, and the scrolling is smooth. The page also weights less than 14 MB. Here is an example of horrible UX plus horrible loading time plus janky scrolling brought you by Google. 60 seconds after the page was open the content of the top of the page was still not done load…

Less than 14mb is low? I don't see why that page should be more than 1mb or just around that

> Less than 14mb is low? I don't see why that page should be more than 1mb or just around that

If you carefully read my message, nowhere I'm saying 14MB (not mb) is "low".

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Post by djrogers »

akhilcacharya wrote: post #217
davemp wrote: post #161

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Nope. Apple would need to do a pretty decent amount of work on iOS to support desktop like behavior. I'm not sure if there's much sales incentive either. Which is a shame because Apple got where it is by pushing the best possible user experiences. Not blind sales maximization.

Am I going crazy? Didn't they support mice pointers when the iPad originally launched?

No, mice were never supported.

Re: iPad Pro

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Post by [deleted] »

criddell wrote: post #196
calgoo wrote: post #123

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Am I the only one who actually like to have an edge on my devices so they dont break by looking at them? At least if there is a metal edge it can take some of the force and you have a chance of not breaking the screen. I dont understand why metal is bad and glass is somehow good? Also, I need to grab my ipad, move it around, spin it, grab it with the other hand etc. I see the edges / bezel's as very useful in these c…

Why not just put a case on it?

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Re: iPad Pro

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Post by csomar »

post_break wrote: post #244

This is a new for apple. My iPad Pro 10.5 is continuing to appreciate, instead of depreciate. They keep raising the price. Fist from $879 to $899. Now it's $929. What is going on at Apple where older products cost more? https://imgur.com/a/JB7fR4a

They have the same name but are you sure they are the same spec?
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