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Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by overgard »

vessenes wrote: post #98

For the haters here - Apple sells roughly 2x as many iPads as Macs (including MacBooks). Roughly as many iPad Pros as laptops. I've cycled through using an iPad Pro as my main device on and off over the years - particularly the cellular modem has been a draw. For coding, they're terrible, as they are for longer form writing. I've ultimately shrunk down to the small size and use it as a kindle/gaming replacement. I th…

I wouldn't call myself a hater, just disappointed. The hardware is incredibly powerful, but it's being held back but an OS that's locked down beyond reason. Maybe they just don't want to cannibalize Mac sales or something.

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

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

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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.

With T-Mobile, I have unlimited data on my iPhone and iPad. But limited tethering data. My iPad data plan is $20-$25 a month.

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by varispeed »

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…

I bought iPad Pro M4 and I am yet to find a use case for it. Combined with non-secure cloud backup in the UK, I see it as a toy device.

Watch YouTube, casually browse web (I am yet to install VPN).

So far the most use I had with it was recording meetings, so that later I can relisten.

If I was able to run Ubuntu on it or even macOs - that would have been a different story...

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by apparent »

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

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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?

Yep, I have the original 11" iPad Pro from 2018. It still works flawlessly and would be perfect for this use case. Someone who needs a device for school should buy a used iPad like this, not a new one that would be overpowered for the task and would cost double. Even with the edu discount, it's over $1k with the keyboard case. Why not just buy an MBA at that point?

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

mbgerring wrote: post #149
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #89

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You didn’t answer the question, what feature can’t you do with the Files App and the ability to save and load files across applications?

- Rename, organize, and delete files that span across a number of different applications - Convert one file type to another - Choose which application to use to open a file - Inspect the details of files in a consistent manner

On your computer, do you inspect the details of a file using Explorer? On the Mac do you do that with the Finder. Or do you actually open the file with an application?

Do you expect to use Windows explorer or the Finder to “convert file types”?

Using iOS 26 on my phone, I held down a file and there is an “Open With” option that gave me a choice of how to open the file.

Across applications? Applications these days save files using the File dialog, they may by default store them in a folder accesible by Files. Yes I know some apps still store their data in their own sandbox. But that’s not the case generally for standard productivity apps.

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by whimsicalism »

0x457 wrote: post #119
sylens wrote: post #75

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I want to be able to write code in an editor or IDE and push that to source control from the device.

You can do that. As long as you're okay with VSCode or a very specific build Vim: https://docs.blink.sh/advanced/code Please don't move the goal post to "I also want to compile and run code" because I got nothing for that. I just ssh to my home server and use my normal shell and neovim there.

i don’t find the code-server experience particularly good. this “functionality” in blink is basically just safari

also no local git

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by Krssst »

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

Even with YT Premium, sponsor announcements are still an annoyance. Firefox with SponsorBlock helps with that, not sure if that's usable on iPad.

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by cedws »

dcreater wrote: post #112

At this point, I think its just very irresponsible of Apple putting these kind of chips in the iPad and then given 99% of the users no way to actually harness that power. Occupy TSMC line time and cause global geopolitical struggles for what??

I think Apple hardware must be incredibly underutilised across the board. Every new generation of iPhone or MacBook they boast about lofty performance gains, but who is actually complaining about their iPhone not being fast enough? Nobody I know pushes their iPhone so hard it starts to lag. It's not like you can really do anything computationally heavy on your phone besides games, but people mostly play simplistic 2D games on iOS anyway.

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by eptcyka »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #110
eptcyka wrote: post #97

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The pros come with 12 and 16 GB of memory. That is plenty.

I would not want to run XCode let alone Android Studio with an Android emulator with 12GB RAM or a VM. Even the lowest end MacBook Air comes with 16GB RAM.

It depends entirely on your target - you don’t need an emulator if you are already running an android device.

Xcode on my macbook doesn’t need 12GB. It is of course a different story if you need to also run clang-analyzer or rust-analyzer in addition to xcode/studio, but still, 16GB would be enough to get by for a sizeable chunk of devs.

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