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Looks wonderful but I have an old iPad Pro with an M1 and 16G memory and I already feel my old iPad Pro is powerful enough to run local LLMs, write books, use SSH/Mosh to my servers, etc. EDIT: oh, the prices are much lower now than what I paid 3+ hears ago, that’s nice.
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- 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 sav…
I do frequently convert file types through the Finder. Bulk converting a bunch of photos, for example, is easier to do through a file browser. Even if I were opening a different app to do that, a standard file browser would be the interface I would want for that.
It’s great if more iOS applications are storing files as regular files on the filesystem now. Apple should have encouraged that in the first place. There was some goofy notion they were going to get rid of the idea of “files” with iOS, but that’s not actually a good idea.
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These use cases are so sad for a device with so much power. Look what Apple has reduced us to.
Life's most precious resource is time. A newer device is often much faster at a person's current routines. Why would you want a fast device to do harder things? Fast alone is worth it.
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I did a performance test over the weekend of compilation times across 4 projects using 4 devices. My M4 MacBook Pro is faster than my modern i9 desktop that work spent $$$ on... iPad feels like a genie trapped in a bottle to me. It has that same M4 but there's so much less to use it for. Too bad I can't just set it by my PC and throw workloads at the processor or something. Continuity works well enough as a second sc…
I am looking forward for real competition to Apple which ironically will be better for Apple users/developers. You don't buy a McClaren for transporting your kids to the school faster. PS: I don't think GPU continuity will work well over USB-C.
For the haters here - Apple sells roughly 2x as many iPads as Macs (including MacBooks). Roughly as many iPad Pros as laptops. I've cycled through using an iPad Pro as my main device on and off over the years - particularly the cellular modem has been a draw. For coding, they're terrible, as they are for longer form writing. I've ultimately shrunk down to the small size and use it as a kindle/gaming replacement. I th…
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Every iPad I've bought was going to be "the one where I find a use case that uses it" but every time it ends up being a YouTube machine.
I bought one just to run Loopy Pro. It has never run anything but the app store, the system settings, and Loopy Pro. But I had the use case before I bought it. If not for that, I wouldn't own one.
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I did a performance test over the weekend of compilation times across 4 projects using 4 devices. My M4 MacBook Pro is faster than my modern i9 desktop that work spent $$$ on... iPad feels like a genie trapped in a bottle to me. It has that same M4 but there's so much less to use it for. Too bad I can't just set it by my PC and throw workloads at the processor or something. Continuity works well enough as a second sc…
Second CPU idea is brilliant. I’d buy an iPad for second screen, second CPU and occasional plane/hotel Netflix/Youtube.
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The very first review I found https://www.pcworld.com/article/2795490/microsoft-surface-pr... This compact tablet runs on a Snapdragon X Plus chip and is built for casual browsing and office work. It’s not high-end The screen has a semi-high brightness IPS panel, 2196×1464 pixel resolution, and a 60 or 90 Hz frame rate. You’ll have to set it up manually; dynamic frequency is not supported. It’s not full pro quality o…
That is not thinking different.
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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.
> Just dock your iPad in the office The fact that you can't turn off the iPad screen while it's docked drives me crazy.
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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 sav…
If I need to know the details of a file (eg file extension, size, location, etc) I generally use the Finder for that, yes. I do frequently convert file types through the Finder. Bulk converting a bunch of photos, for example, is easier to do through a file browser. Even if I were opening a different app to do that, a standard file browser would be the interface I would want for that. It’s great if more iOS applicatio…
As you would with the Files app…
> Even if I were opening a different app to do that, a standard file browser would be the interface I would want for that
Which iPad apps that allow you to work with files don’t use the standard files app interface when you open and save a file? How else would they work?
> It’s great if more iOS applications are storing files as regular files on the filesystem now. Apple should have encouraged that in the first place.
The Files app and the APIs were introduced in 2017.