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If the iPad had better software and could be considered a first class productivity machine then it would be less surprising but the one thing no one says about the iPads is “I wish this chip were faster”
- Up to 1.5x the CPU speed of iPad Pro's previous M2 chip
- Octane gets up to 4x the speed compared to M2
- At comparable performance, M4 consumes half the power of M2
- High-performance AI engine, that claims 60x the speed of Apple's first engine (A11 Bionic)
"With these improvements to the CPU and GPU, M4 maintains Apple silicon’s industry-leading performance per watt. M4 can deliver the same performance as M2 using just half the power. And compared with the latest PC chip in a thin and light laptop, M4 can deliver the same performance using just a fourth of the power." That's an incredible improvement in just a few years. I wonder how much of that is Apple engineering a…
That is pretty crazy.
Or am I missing something?
Isn’t there a ToS prohibition about “custom coding” in iOS? Like, the only way you can ever use that hardware directly is for developers who go through Apple Developer Program, which last time I heard was bitter lemon? Tell me if I’m wrong.
They keep making iPads more powerful while keeping them on the Fisher-Price OS and then wonder why no one is buying them for real work. Who in their right mind will spend $1300-$1600 on this rather than a MacBook Pro?
I’m far from an expert in Apple silicon, but this strikes me as having some conservative improvements. And in-depth info out there yet?
if only macOS would run on iPad..
Seeing an M series chip launch first in an iPad must be result of some mad supply chain and manufacturing related hangovers from COVID. If the iPad had better software and could be considered a first class productivity machine then it would be less surprising but the one thing no one says about the iPads is “I wish this chip were faster”