Honestly I don’t see the point at this stage. I have an iPad Pro M2 and it’s rapid as it is, do games and work on it etc. The bigger problem is iPadOS not taking advantage of all that power.
I still am happy with my M1 Pro.
And, honestly, for a while I was using it with a monitor, and that dual screen setup wasn’t too terrible. However there are just enough issues with Stage Manager to make it annoying to use for long stretches at a time.
That is to say: I agree they have too much power that isn’t being used well.
but AI! it’ll suggest which of your photos you like!
Yeah, we could almost all be using iPad that dock and fun a full OS. But because corporation needs their profits tech advancement has been held back.
I’m not one to buy Apple products, but I keep hearing amazing things about their M4 devices. Most of them come with quite some dealbrealers compared to the competition, such as soldered RAM across the board, and Apple proprietary storage on the Mini (which they just have to tack an Apple tax onto).
The iPad’s pretty much the only thing they make where the competition shares most of the same drawbacks (especially if either self-repair is proven to work, or parts pairing gets banned in enough jurisdicitions). Most of the reason that I don’t want one is that I don’t want to move into yet another proprietary ecosystem.
So, ever since learning about the fact that Asahi Linux exists, I’ve been dreaming about an iPad that can run arbitrary OS’es just like the Macs. Imagine running something like Plasma Mobile or Phosh on an iPad, with full desktop apps being ready should you need them. I hope I get to see something like that someday, whether through an exploit, legislation or just Apple finally coming around.
Crap, I’m fresh out of hopium
After using an M2 MacBook Air with only 8gb for the past few years, I really wouldn’t worry about the ram. Now that 16gb is the base model you’ll be fine, you won’t ever need to upgrade it.
Seriously macOS just doesn’t use a ton of ram and it handles ram pressure extremely well. I do a most of my development work on only 8gb of ram
soldered RAM across the board
More than soldering, it’s actually packaged, physically placed into the same single black package as the CPU and GPU and storage, and then that whole single package is soldered to the board.
M1 MacBook Air 16GB user here. It does everything except AI and resource-hungry non native gaming. PS2 emulation with PS5 Controller works like a charm, 60 FPS 4x upscaling no problem.
IMHO, the only benefit is the longevity of the device. Those specs are absolute overkill for today’s needs, but that iPad will remain performant for a long time.
H2?
Second half
