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Re: iPad Pro M1

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Post by lucasverra »

gordon_freeman wrote: post #313
deergomoo wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I sold my nearly maxed out 16" MacBook Pro for an M1 Air. I hated the 16" with a passion, but the Air is my favourite computer I've ever owned. It sounds like a criticism, but the best thing about it is that it gives me absolutely no cause to ever think about it. I don't get irritated by it being burning hot and loud as hell because it's always cool and silent. I don't have to worry about battery life because it just…

care to share hardware specs of your M1 Air?

16gb ram, base SSD. You cannot go wrong with that. Great machine I'm typing on this message

Re: iPad Pro M1

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Post by technics256 »

deergomoo wrote: post #257
WORMS_EAT_WORMS wrote: post #25

If you have been passively reading about M1 and haven’t had the chance to upgrade your Air or MBP, just know it’s the real deal. I have never been happier with a laptop than this first generation M1 MBP. A little wild to think in — poof! — a single year we have gone to the Air, Mac Book Pro, iPad, and iMac sharing the SAME chip! Amazing, can’t wait for the new iPhone...

I sold my nearly maxed out 16" MacBook Pro for an M1 Air. I hated the 16" with a passion, but the Air is my favourite computer I've ever owned. It sounds like a criticism, but the best thing about it is that it gives me absolutely no cause to ever think about it. I don't get irritated by it being burning hot and loud as hell because it's always cool and silent. I don't have to worry about battery life because it just…

My biggest concern is the screen size. Does it get in the way?

Re: iPad Pro M1

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Post by rconti »

robocat wrote: post #289
clairity wrote: post #148

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> "...gesture-like latencies in between to get it to work." i hate that animations on ios are i/o blocking. every single time i have to enter my passcode, it misses at least one if not two of my keypresses, which means i have to erase the whole thing and do it more slowly since the missing keypresses are essentially random (not just the final one or two). another related annoyance is alert popups that occur more than…

Are you sure it isn't that you are sliding your finger enough for iOS to think you are doing a "scroll gesture" instead of a click? I hate iOS because the movement limit before a tap gets cancelled is too small for my tastes - simulating "virtual" clicks at 10px limit of motion worked better for my tastes using a browser. Maybe I am just lazy, maybe the capacitance or shape of my fingers is the problem, or maybe I ha…

I don't swype, and I get my passcode wrong on iOS all the time. It doesn't register the first press if you do it too quickly.

Re: iPad Pro M1

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Post by crooked-v »

smasher164 wrote: post #46

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…

Really, at this point the only things keeping me from replacing my everyday-use personal laptop with an iPad Pro or iPad Air are:

- The lack of a true development environment local to the device

- The lack of true background app support for things that need persistent connections (ssh clients, etc)

Re: iPad Pro M1

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Post by FearlessNebula »

andy_ppp wrote: post #135
smasher164 wrote: post #46

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…

I can’t speak to these issues, however it would be excellent to have one of these running a full OSX. I’d certainly get one if I had that level of control to develop on it and choose which software I installed without an App Store. As things stand these devices aren’t for us, so judging them on the needs of hacker news user vs more standard consumers isn’t really a fair fight. They are deliberately limited to appeal…

My issue is that an $800 iPad Pro with keyboard and pencil ($1200 including the accessories) should be in a whole different class in terms of productivity than the $329 base iPad. But it's not. They both do the same thing (good for consumption, decent for creativity, pretty crappy for productivity)

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Post by strogonoff »

f6v wrote: post #116
speedgoose wrote: post #19

I wish the iPad pro was not such a locked down operating system. I just want to run a web browser that is not safari, and visual studio code.

At that point, what's the difference to MBA? iPad will always be subpar in my eyes due to poor lappability in "laptop" mode. And I realised I don't want my work screen to be covered in fingerprints.

My iPad is covered in fingerprints all the time, even though I don’t use it all that heavily. They are visible when brightness is low, as well as when it reflects surrounding light at particular angles.

I was considering getting a paper-like screen protector (which can also make drawing with Pencil more comfortable) but I’m torn on the issue. On one hand, fingerprints are annoying, and thoroughly cleaning the screen is a hassle since not using any protector I have to be mindful of having a rogue speck scratch it permanently. On the other hand, a screen protector negatively affects image reproduction, and a poorly designed one could imaginably leave permanent marks on the underlying screen through its use.

Does anyone have experience using paper-like screen protectors with iPad? Can they leave marks?

Re: iPad Pro M1

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Post by kitsunesoba »

jxy wrote: post #335
justaguy88 wrote: post #250

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Agreed, ubuntu.app would be amazing

Switch to Safari to surf the net, and come back to ubuntu.app ... ooooh, it got killed in the background!

iOS/iPadOS only kill background processes if they're resource hungry and competing with another resource hungry frontmost app and resources are running low.

Anecdotally, on my iPhone 11 Pro Max w/4GB of RAM it's very rare for apps to get killed while multitasking. There's been a few times when I've brought forward an app I used multiple days ago and it's still running exactly where I left it.

Based on that, with these new models having 8GB and 16GB of RAM processes getting killed should be pretty rare. On top of that, it's highly likely that virtualization apps would be given increased protection from getting killed due to their inherent extra overhead.

Re: iPad Pro M1

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Post by sharken »

nunez wrote: post #333
smasher164 wrote: post #46

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…

Hard agree. M1 on the iPad is great from a technical perspective (having the same CPU/CPU arch on desktop and mobile platforms is a game-changer), but doesn't really do anything for me right now when things like Google Sheets are a pain to use on it.

It does chew through a fair bit of your IT budget though, but yeah no doubt its a cool device.

But, for the asking price of the iPad Pro I'd rather get a nice PC laptop with latest gen Ryzen and Nvidia hardware.

Guess I'm just not in the target group for the iPad Pro.

Re: iPad Pro M1

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Post by clairity »

rrrrrrrrrrrryan wrote: post #334
clairity wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "...gesture-like latencies in between to get it to work." i hate that animations on ios are i/o blocking. every single time i have to enter my passcode, it misses at least one if not two of my keypresses, which means i have to erase the whole thing and do it more slowly since the missing keypresses are essentially random (not just the final one or two). another related annoyance is alert popups that occur more than…

From my primitive understanding, many of the iOS animations are basically pre-rendered and played at the right time to cover up any CPU-intensive activities that are happening under the hood. Rather than display a laggy, stuttering input box that captures every keypress (eventually), they've chosen to lock you out from input entirely, force you to sit back and watch the beautiful transition, then allow you to input w…

yes, i've heard at least a variation of that explanation before, and it made sense for the first few iterations of idevices, but not so much anymore. apple devices are among the most powerful personal computers ever available. it really shouldn't be that way at this point.

Re: iPad Pro M1

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Post by ricardobayes »

manigandham wrote: post #234
clairity wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "...gesture-like latencies in between to get it to work." i hate that animations on ios are i/o blocking. every single time i have to enter my passcode, it misses at least one if not two of my keypresses, which means i have to erase the whole thing and do it more slowly since the missing keypresses are essentially random (not just the final one or two). another related annoyance is alert popups that occur more than…

Yes, this is why the default iPhone calculator app is completely useless. These forced animations make tasks take the same amount of time regardless of how fast the hardware gets. I would love to be able to turn off all animations in iphone/ipad UIs.

Probably that's the reason there isn't one on iPad. Let that sink in. There's no calculator on a $1000+ 'Pro' device.
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