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Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by overgard »

SkyPuncher wrote: post #59
overgard wrote: post #37

I get the impression they're trying to market this to laptop users. I'm still very skeptical of iPads as a productivity device. The problem isn't the hardware, it's the OS, the app store and the model for selling apps. Apple's app store policies make it hard to sell expensive software (which most productivity apps are somewhat expensive), it also makes it hard to distribute free software (as in open source -- because…

My sister in law has used an iPad as here primary compute device for school. Frankly, it works absolutely fine for her. 95% of her need is reading, email, and writing papers (in Google Drive).

I guess that's fine, but if that's all you're doing you could easily just get a hundred dollar chromebook. The marketing for this references things like transcode performance for Final Cut Pro. Implying that you would use it for some sort of serious computing task.

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by recursive »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #130
SkyPuncher wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My sister in law has used an iPad as here primary compute device for school. Frankly, it works absolutely fine for her. 95% of her need is reading, email, and writing papers (in Google Drive).

> 95% of her need is reading, email, and writing papers Sure, it's great for that kind of (computationally) light work, but then what's the point of putting a monster like the M5 chip in it?

Smooth animation for throw-away-coded SPAs.

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by recursive »

bombcar wrote: post #9
sylens wrote: post #4

I have a 2018 iPad Pro that is due for replacement but I cannot bring myself to spend the money on a new iPad. No matter how much I think I'll use it, it becomes a web browsing and YouTube machine on the couch. It's a shame because I think the hardware design is quite good, but the OS itself is so limiting, even with the "improvements" iPadOS 26 introduced.

Every iPad I've bought was going to be "the one where I find a use case that uses it" but every time it ends up being a YouTube machine.

I bought one just to run Loopy Pro. It has never run anything but the app store, the system settings, and Loopy Pro.

But I had the use case before I bought it. If not for that, I wouldn't own one.

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by akdev1l »

0x457 wrote: post #120
wlesieutre wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a useful device if you're an artist, if you're a developer the best thing you can do with it is buy the cellular model and use it as a very thin VNC client

> buy the cellular model You probably have your iPhone with you every time you got an iPad with you, so just use that.

Except the iPad battery will last longer and will not kill your phone while you do stuff

>inb4 buy a battery bank

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by hylaride »

walkabout wrote: post #88
1-more wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Prompt lets you log into some other computer and run programs there, not run programs on your iPad. Hell, I used it to fix a production bug from my phone in like 2013.

> Hell, I used it to fix a production bug from my phone in like 2013 LOL, there are tens of us, I'm sure! Fixed a production bug on my phone from the passenger seat of a friend's car, somewhere around 2013 or 2014.

I did the same, but with iSSH (which I still mourn).

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by ako »

dylan604 wrote: post #84
seviu wrote: post #3

I really want this but I can’t justify such a machine just for watching YouTube. I cannot even give it to my kids since I don’t have multiple accounts with it. Kind of sad that the most interesting device Apple has will never show its true potential due to their greed.

People keep saying their iPad is a YT consumption device, but without ad blocking, how do you stay sane? I'm assuming if you're consuming that much YT content you've moved to a premium account or something? I don't use my tablet primarily for YT content, so it's rather jolting when I click a link somewhere and see the hell that is unblocked YT

Yes, YouTube premium, use it a lot to practice my guitar playing by playing along YouTube music videos with chords displayed.

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by cyberpunk »

criddell wrote: post #67
alberth wrote: post #16

I'm be curious to know the breakdown of Pro vs Air vs Base iPad sales. Because I have to imagine very few people buy the iPad Pro (and for those who do, what use case are they buying it for).

I'm going to order one of these to replace my 2018 iPad Pro which is the computer I use the most. I'll spend around $2k and I want to get at least 5 years of use out of it. That will make it cost me a little more than $1 / day which, fortunately, I can afford.

What size you going for?

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by stillworks »

bschne wrote: post #106
sylens wrote: post #4

I have a 2018 iPad Pro that is due for replacement but I cannot bring myself to spend the money on a new iPad. No matter how much I think I'll use it, it becomes a web browsing and YouTube machine on the couch. It's a shame because I think the hardware design is quite good, but the OS itself is so limiting, even with the "improvements" iPadOS 26 introduced.

This. I've started thinking of it like this — the iPad, in my case, has an absolutely abysmal cost to usage ratio. On the far other end of the spectrum (and in a similar form factor if you squint) is probably my Kindle. That being said, _some_ people I know consistently seem to get lots of work use out of their tablets, and I can't quite put my finger on where we differ.

Note taking and Reading are my primary use cases.

Goes without saying YMMV but it works for me.

I had to hand down my iPad Pro 3rd Gen (the one with A12x Bionic chip) to my daughter for her school use.

I got myself a 13" iPad Air (M2 chip) this time and Apple Pencil Pro (from Apple Refurbished store). The larger screen size isn't that much of a botheration as I thought it might be. On the flip side, the screen size is a lot closer to an A4 sheet and writing on it feels much better. I use Paperlike screen cover and pencil tips too.

I don't have Netflix or YouTube installed on it.

I only use it for Apple Books, Kindle, Notes and now Preview app is there as well.

I might this time even use it as Sidekick and remote access IDEs running on my MBP but not sure if I want to do that yet on the iPad.

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by akdev1l »

dylan604 wrote: post #84
seviu wrote: post #3

I really want this but I can’t justify such a machine just for watching YouTube. I cannot even give it to my kids since I don’t have multiple accounts with it. Kind of sad that the most interesting device Apple has will never show its true potential due to their greed.

People keep saying their iPad is a YT consumption device, but without ad blocking, how do you stay sane? I'm assuming if you're consuming that much YT content you've moved to a premium account or something? I don't use my tablet primarily for YT content, so it's rather jolting when I click a link somewhere and see the hell that is unblocked YT

> I'm assuming if you're consuming that much YT content you've moved to a premium account or something?

Yes

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by monkmartinez »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #42
gedy wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Normal-ish files and filesystem access, and dev types could use access to the terminal (on the system)

What’s not “normal” about the files and why do most people need access to the file system and not a method to share files across apps that’s already available?

Do you use "files"? Its garbargio on steroids. You can't just open a file from the files app. Moving files around is cumbersome at best and downright infuriating most of the time. The "sandbox" nature of iOS is simply not intuitive enough to know how things will react when you move and try to open a file in another app. It just sucks so bad.

Furthermore, "sharing" is broken. Does it copy the file? Does it move the file? Am I duplicating this 200mb pdf when I move it to books? How the ____ do I know? There is a dearth of information and I imagine most people, like myself, give up and use it to read before bed or watch a few videos on the couch. I am never going to by another iPad until the OS is useful beyond drawing, creating music or reading.

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