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More importantly: no Apple Intelligence, which makes this an actual upgrade.
A.I. is in its infancy now, but I expect significant improvements over the next year or two.
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As someone struggling to find the limits of his M2 iPad air, you don't.
Hopefully 7 years from now you'll still be able to use it with modern apps, websites, and video content. IMO, The benefits of these chips are in longevity rather than pushing them to the limit today.
I 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.
Give me a MB with LTE and I can finally stop buying®retting iPads. Maybe Apple moving into the modem space will get us there but it does feel like some sort of purposeful market segmentation
Were it not for constantly updated buying guides from tech news sites, Im not sure anyone even Apple employees themselves would know which iPad to recommend to anyone.
Studies have shown that when companies present an overwhelming number of choices, consumers often end up spending more. The psychology behind this is rooted in decision fatigue, where consumers are more likely to choose something familiar or assume that a more expensive product is the best choice.
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Or a 12” MacBook - Apple is missing both 11” and 12” options. Or let us run Mac apps on the darn iPad.
> Or let us run Mac apps on the darn iPad. Pretty sure it would kill battery life, and play very poorly with their suspend-wake functionality.
booo fix airdrop from mac to ipjone
I 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.
Or a 12” MacBook - Apple is missing both 11” and 12” options. Or let us run Mac apps on the darn iPad.
An M-series 12” would be amazing. Or heck, with how powerful A-series SoCs are these days, even one of those would likely be sufficient and yet far more efficient and powerful than those awful Intel CPUs the original 12” was saddled with.
For the iPhone, there once was a time that $600 was the cost of the highest end phone. Now Apple has created a pricing architecture (and laddering) where $600 today only gets you the entry level iPhone.
Similarly with iPad. They have been able to get consumers now to buy effectively a 2-year old components inside an iPad Air and still command a premium price ... and making it feel "new".
I'm not knocking Apple.
I'm genuinely impressed with their pricing architecture and strategy they have been able to execute on over the years.
Were it not for constantly updated buying guides from tech news sites, Im not sure anyone even Apple employees themselves would know which iPad to recommend to anyone.
I don't really see the value proposition for the iPad Pro. It's got powerful hardware, but I can't imagine myself doing any heavy work on a tablet.
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iPad (cheap ol reliable) iPad AIR (pro lite) iPad mini (mini with iPad tech) iPad Pro (for artists or people who think they can replace their MacBooks with it but in the end they can’t)
I don't need to replace my laptop, but I would like to learn digital drawing on it. Is there a cheaper non pro version with a big screen and stylus support? Is the Apple Pen (or Pencil?) different between models?