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I have an m2 iPad pro. The last thing it needs is more processing power, what it needs is better software to make use of the power that it has. I’d love to run full OS X on it considering I paid more than some MacBooks.
Yeah weird shilling hardware power at this point into tech cycle… short of ML/AI work loads for GPUs, we have enough power for every day shit.
We need better software products to utilize them but all we got is fucking ad laden trash and spyware with every app.
Big tech lost their fucking minds.
We need better software products to utilize them
100%… for example… they used Diablo Immortal as the example for the new ray tracing capabilities LOL
Common iPadOS L
I’m starting to wonder if the real reason the push for bigger screens caught on wasn’t just because of the basic psychology of “bigger = better” but so they could shove more ads on screen, and now it’s more processing power so those ads won’t lock up the browser for a whole second while loading some bullshit questionnaire like “are you adult, child or gamer on iOS”
EDIT: So many downvotes lol are silicon valley tech bros mad?
i would not put it past them, de-googling saves so much battery. that alone is benefit any tech enjoyer can get behind you would think, privacy is just a cherry.
but more broadly speaking it is amazing how they think they can run all these malicious code on people’s devices because of some ToS EULA NDA X 69 Arbitration bullshit.
But nothing will change until people take their digital sovereignty back, literally only thing stopping the solution for most of this shit is poorly educated and complacent gen pop too busy jerking the feed to generate training data for some depraved AI girlfriend.
just take me to the farm already
Same thing with my 2018 iPad Pro honestly. More ram and a better display? Maybe, but other than that it’s completely software limited
As a developer, I find it pretty frustrating having to deal with constant hardware updates. By the time you get something released that takes advantage of the hardware you have, you’re already at least a generation or two behind.
I feel the same way. I feel like we used to buy things and hold onto them for a while, nowadays, everything seems to be designed to have a single year lifecycle. I like AirPods but now that their battery died and I can’t replace them, I’m looking at going back to the cord. But now of course we’re in dongle hell since there’s only one port…
Check out the Fairbuds from Fairphone.
I love how microchips look like really well-organized Factorio maps
That’s because that’s exactly what they are.
It’s all
ones and zeroesfactorio once you get to the bottom.
the M1 is still overkill for 99% of ends user tasks.
The primary benefit for the average consumer tends to be longer battery life due to the same task using less power, in theory anyway.
Sure but I already charge my iPad about once a week and it’s never flat - 13 hours for video playback if you watch one or two TV episodes a day goes a long way.
I guess they could add a smaller battery, but I don’t think that would reduce the weight by much — it’s pretty small.
What iPads really need is better software. Safari, for example, is vastly inferior to the Mac version. And don’t even get me started with how window management works on an iPad. It’s total garbage.
Maybe with better software, I’d use it for something more computationally demanding than watching TV.
Sure, if you use it for an hour a day, you’re not gonna notice it much. And I’m not disagreeing that a lot of the software sorely needs to be improved. The people who are going to notice aren’t you. They’re the ones using their devices all day for work or similar.
Will the M4 be used in new MacBook Airs, or is that a completely separate SoC? I’m not familiar with Apple’s hardware anymore.
One BILLION dollars for 32 gigs of ram.
Prices have dropped then!
I still can’t run basic ml stuff. I can’t play the vast majority of video games. I have to put up with the same sentiment that Microsoft brings to their products, that you are just renting your computer from Apple. The hardware looks bad ass. Too bad its apple.
Going from 1 TB to 2 TB SSD on this iPad is somehow $400? That is a clown price but it is a 50% discount on going from 512 GB to 1 TB. What the actual fuck?
Going from 512GB to 1TB is also going from 8GB to 16GB RAM.
8GB should like be illegal, lol. Wonder if you can upgrade it (or is it soldered) or if it’s just for the landfill.
All of Apple’s M series chips have the ram right on the same package as the rest of the SoC. Not upgradeable, but also much faster than traditional off-package memory.
Funnily Apple marketed their slower ram as something better in the nineties when memory speed was king. Now when nobody cares about memory speed (I bet most people confound bandwith with speed, forgetting latence too) but we all like to have lots of it because we use lots of programs & apps, Apple is doing the reverse.
Lol.
Yeah it’ll come to the Air’s and the Mac Mini at some point. I suspect it’s actually cheaper to make on the new process node (it’s the second generation of TSMC’s 3nm process), so maybe it won’t be too far off.
Any idea how long it usually takes for a new SoC to reach the Airs? Assuming they follow a pattern with each now generation.
Just wondering whether to buy an M3 Air or wait for the M4 version.
Probably next month or next October
Does any one care?
There was so much hype on this generation of silicon and the landing has seemed extremely flat to me, largely because Apple.
I like keeping tabs on it, as they’re really the only ones pushing mainstream high end ARM chips at the moment.
Don’t forget about the new Snapdragon X series. I heard they were pretty good, on par and better than M3s.
Hoping they have success, but to say that their laptop chips are truly mainstream, at least in the same sense that Apple gives, is a bit generous I feel.
Obviously the X series has a decent shot at changing that, which I really hope it does.
Do you just mean M4? Or all Apple Silicon?
Everything since the M1. Mind blowing hype, graphs that seem shocking at announcement. Data that comes in below these graphs, then owing to the extremely high walls of the garden, a sigh and shoulder shrug at what you can do with the technology, because although cool and seemingly very powerful, you just can’t do much with it because of apples buisness philosophy.
I have recently bought older generation 12.9" iPad Pro and an M2 MBP through Backmarket at a fraction of the price. I’m primarily a Linux user but I bought the iPad for the screen and the MBP for music production. Even though they are years old, they still have more processing power than I need.
So raytracing will be supported in iPad apps now…
So far the M4 seems to only be announced for the iPad.
How fast will that run an iPod?
