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Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by Teever »

gh0stcat wrote: post #10
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.

You could consider getting into drawing/design. They compete incredibly well against the display-based tablets made by wacom, especially these days where you can also do 3d and animation in procreate.

Can you use your iPad as a Wacom quality comparable table for input on your macbook?

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by pretext-1 »

prmoustache wrote: post #177

What is the use case for an iPad Pro vs the regular iPad or the iPad Air that I didn't knew even existed? I have the feeling that everything one could do with the Pro could be done as well with the less expensive models. Apart from the handful of travel youtubers that might want to edit and render their videos in an airport terminal I think the use cases would be very niche. Yet a lot of people seem to prefer it over…

All my other devices have 120Hz and switching from any of these to my 5 year old 60Hz iPad Pro gives me physical pain. If the iPad Air had 120Hz I would probably buy that right now. I think I’ll wait for another year though as I’m pretty sure the next iPad Air generation will have 120Hz, now that the non-Pro iPhone has it as well.

I know not everyone is as sensitive to this as I am, so I recommend going to the store and trying both the Air and the Pro. If you’re like me you will notice the difference immediately.

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by majormunky »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #26
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.

What else does the OS need to do? There are real windows and real background processing.

It would be great if they allowed JIT compilation in apps. This would allow things like Dolphin (Wii, Gamecube emulator) to run.

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by AppleBananaPie »

vel0city wrote: post #179
AppleBananaPie wrote: post #174

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Do you use this as your main driver or just to check on things? Just trying to imagine the workflow :) I personally prefer a ~32" 4k screen for main work but I could see the convenience of an iPad to quickly remote in and check on stuff or maybe it's enough on it's own and I can learn from ya'll!

Por que no los dos? Just dock your iPad in the office and get a desktop class experience. Pick it up and go and have your same apps and sessions and data anywhere. Would be nice. It's the experience I had with a Surface but I get Windows isn't applicable to all users and workloads.

Yeah I need a local mac for builds / debugging :( Thanks for the info, I'll dream of better days ;)

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by ARandomerDude »

varispeed wrote: post #153
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...

iPad is also the best ebook reader in my opinion, which is pretty much the only reason I have one.

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by threetonesun »

recursive wrote: post #133
bombcar wrote: post #9

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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.

Loopy Pro is as compelling an argument for buying one on the audio side as Procreate is on the graphics side.

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Post by pjmlp »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #124
pjmlp wrote: post #109

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My first computer had 48 KB, 6 GB are a lot when not juggling Electron processes.

Really? Are we going to compare development in what 1980 to today? I got my start programming on an Apple //e in 1986 in assembly and it had 128KB of RAM. 6GB is not plenty when you are expected to run an IDE and in the case of Android an emulator that is also emulating a phone with 4GB+ RAM. iOS development has never used an “emulator”, when you ran in the simulator even on x86 computers, it compiled your code to x8…

Really, because iPadOS fails short of being a proper Dynabook.

Who needs an emulator when running on device?!?

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by bobbylarrybobby »

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…

There's also the issue of iOS virtual memory limitations. Whereas macOS lets apps use swap space (duh), on iOS apps will be killed if their memory use is too high and they move into the background. (And possibly if it's too high while they're in the foreground, idk.) Which means you can't leave apps open in the background — they might be killed at any moment. And this makes true productivity basically impossible.

Re: iPad Pro with M5 chip

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Post by pjmlp »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #190
pjmlp wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My first computer had 48 KB, 6 GB are a lot when not juggling Electron processes.

I haven’t done mobile development for ages, but isn’t it always slower to have to update the app on the phone all of the time?

Why should mobile development the only reason for a rich OS experience?
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