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I believe this is the first time has ever advertised RAM in an iPad or iPhone.
Also the first time they shipped different amounts of ram stratified by storage choice.
This sounds impressive. I wonder how that works in practice especially the parts of the supply chain that Apple doesn't control directly, like "material collection". Are they just planting a bunch of trees, buying CO2 certificates, or are they actually making the entire supply chain carbon neutral?
For this Mother's Day I am thinking of getting my old mother either an iPad Pro (M1) or Macbook Air (M1). Emphasized on "old" because she is technically quite illiterate. She does use iPhone though. I wonder what will be the better gift for her? Is iPad quite foolproof? I am thinking of getting the magic keyboard as well and the mouse in case she needs a mouse. Her workflow most likely just browsing, email, FaceTime,…
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My thoughts exactly. Apple might have the apps, but actually getting stuff done on it feels cumbersome and strange. I'm not sure why they continue to stretch the iPad in so many directions when they could just be focusing on a good tablet experience.
It is a great tablet experience! They could have a dual boot option where you get a MacOS for real work. Otherwise you are right, don't try to make real work happen in the current form. SO MUCH FRICTION to copy and move a file around for example. The bulk of my use is strictly tablet stuff and I think it is really great at that.
To me, it doesn't matter how powerful the iPad is if the software experience is subpar. Multitasking is cumbrous enough that it might as well not exist, multi-display setups can only mirror at a fixed aspect ratio, it lacks multiple user profiles requiring a family to be under a single user, and the few apps that take advantage of the keyboard/trackpad are nowhere similar to their desktop counterparts. Take Excel for…
Yeah, I saw this announcement and was thinking, “Why do I need more power?” coming from a 2018 iPad Pro. All this power is cool , but, the design of iPadOS is just not conducive to me wanting to get anything done on it. I know that’s ambiguous and hand wavey. Part of it is certainly the multitasking. Part of it is the keyboard. Part of it is no local Unix or build tools or good code editor. Yeah, I can SSH into anoth…
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I have zero interest in using a worse laptop. Touch screens are an anti-feature. For decades we have tried as an industry to do touch interfaces on “real” computers and it’s always horrible because it’s not actually a thing worth doing. With M1 Macs being a thing I have no idea what benefits an iPad offers.
I own a 2018 iPad Pro, and it's possibly the best & most versatile device I've ever owned. Among the things I use it for are: surfing the web whilst on the couch, checking in on my RSS feeds, casual gaming, watching movies, reading PDF & Kindle e-books, handwritten & typed notes for work & study, replying emails, portable RDP, VNC & SSH client on the go. And I'm probably still forgetting a lot of things...
checking in on my RSS feeds -- consuming media
casual gaming -- consuming media
watching movies -- consuming media
reading PDF & Kindle e-books -- consuming media
handwritten & typed notes for work & study -- light typing
replying emails -- light typing
portable RDP, VNC & SSH client on the go -- not sure
This is what the OP was complaining about. It's fine for consuming media, but the Pro part was supposed to be about people creating things. Programming, video editing, graphics design, writing papers, etc... For these applications the iPad Pro has been a disappointment.
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I'm still skeptical that Apple wants it to be a general-purpose computer.
Remember the Apple ad with the little girl who replies... 'What's a computer?' The ad ended with the tag line... “Imagine what your computer could do if it was an iPad Pro”.
For this Mother's Day I am thinking of getting my old mother either an iPad Pro (M1) or Macbook Air (M1). Emphasized on "old" because she is technically quite illiterate. She does use iPhone though. I wonder what will be the better gift for her? Is iPad quite foolproof? I am thinking of getting the magic keyboard as well and the mouse in case she needs a mouse. Her workflow most likely just browsing, email, FaceTime,…
As for being foolproof, it is about as foolproof as an iPhone is. So if you count iPhones as foolproof, then you should be good to go.
MacOS, for all its good, is an entirely separate beast, and she will essentially have to learn a new OS, with all the caveats that come with it, not even mentioning foolproofness and such.
For your specific scenario, sounds like iPad Pro is the better of the two options.
For this Mother's Day I am thinking of getting my old mother either an iPad Pro (M1) or Macbook Air (M1). Emphasized on "old" because she is technically quite illiterate. She does use iPhone though. I wonder what will be the better gift for her? Is iPad quite foolproof? I am thinking of getting the magic keyboard as well and the mouse in case she needs a mouse. Her workflow most likely just browsing, email, FaceTime,…
For this Mother's Day I am thinking of getting my old mother either an iPad Pro (M1) or Macbook Air (M1). Emphasized on "old" because she is technically quite illiterate. She does use iPhone though. I wonder what will be the better gift for her? Is iPad quite foolproof? I am thinking of getting the magic keyboard as well and the mouse in case she needs a mouse. Her workflow most likely just browsing, email, FaceTime,…
I do not see why a non tech literate person would need an iPad Pro though. iPad Air (bigger screen is more comfortable for older eyes) or even Mini should easily suffice.