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Why not? Honest question.
Because there’s nothing you can do on an M3 that you can’t do on an M2. Or M1.
But can't you do it faster on a faster processor?
Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new Magic Keyboard
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#92Here’s a guide for quick decision making re: iPad purchase: * iPad is for kids/edu * iPad Air is for adults (most people) * iPad Pro is for adults who want to flex or who have a company credit card.
Do they all support the Apple Pencil? Or only certain versions? Thank you for this.
No, there are 4 different Apple Pencil versions and each has a list of compatible iPads. Here is the full list. https://support.apple.com/en-us/108937
Re: Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new Magic Keyboard
#93Here’s a guide for quick decision making re: iPad purchase: * iPad is for kids/edu * iPad Air is for adults (most people) * iPad Pro is for adults who want to flex or who have a company credit card.
I was trying to think of a reason you'd need the full power of an M3 chip in an iPad...any ideas?
Video editing apps like DaVinci Resolve will take advantage of this nicely, as will similar multimedia apps.
Local AI models and gaming also come to mind.
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#94The base model is $599 in the US, or $799 in Canada. Which is odd as Apple usually screws Canada and has worse-than-exchange prices in Canada, and in this case it's actually better than exchange prices. In contrast is the release of the 16e just two weeks ago, where the pricing is $599 in the US, $899 in Canada. Weird.
I wonder if US tariffs on China have something to do with this, and the US price is more than it would have been.
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#95I just want an 11" Macbook air again. Even with the M2 it would fly. iPads with this horsepower just don't make sense. It's like a V8 Miata with 4 donuts for tires.
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#96Here’s a guide for quick decision making re: iPad purchase: * iPad is for kids/edu * iPad Air is for adults (most people) * iPad Pro is for adults who want to flex or who have a company credit card.
I was trying to think of a reason you'd need the full power of an M3 chip in an iPad...any ideas?
I wanted to say x86 (and PPC) emulation for gaming, but Apple doesn't allow JITing unfortunately.
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#97I had been hoping that apple would one day produce an M-series chip powered version of the 12 inch retina macbook air. They discontinued those in 2017 and I have one of the last ones that were sold but the battery is very dead and it has stability issues now. I may consider this product if the keyboard is solid and the screen doesn't shake when typing.
I also hope for a new take on an ultraportable Macbook w/ less than 1000g the 12" Macbook was special
I still think about my friend's netbook he had in secondary school in about 2006
Went down a rabbit hole recently looking at some Chinese ones by Chuwi, nearly pulled the trigger too
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#98I owned multiple iPads and never found a compelling use case for them. I don't know why I keep buying them but they have been great computers for my parents so it's not like I buy to shelf them. Are there any use cases (apart from drawing maybe. I can't draw a stick figure if my life depended on it so that's not for me) for developers?
My iPad is almost exclusively for watching movies on planes. And it's very handy for that.
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#99Wake me up when I can install Linux on it.
Re: Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new Magic Keyboard
#100What really surprises me is that they introduced any new M3 based devices. Common knowledge was they wanted to move away from the M3 quickly because it was on TSMCs first gen 3nm processing technology that had lower yields
Well, “common knowledge” around here tends to be wrong, constantly.