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2018 iPad Pro Models Could Have Very Fast Octa-Core A11X Bionic Chip

I look forward to the upgrade. I will always take more speed when it comes to graphics and video and new possible software. I could care less if my word processor runs any faster. 4K and 8K in the future is what I'm interested in. I'm always interested in the weight too. My computers can never be fast enough, even if I don't use all of there power all the time. You never know what's out there if the computer just ran a little faster.
 
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Scottsoapbox said:
Where exactly are you supposed to grip that rendered iPad?
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On any side, just as you do with the existing 10.5" iPad Pro that has the same size side bezels as this.

While I would like for this to happen and I would likely upgrade...I just hate how many form factor changes that the iPad has gone through. So many Smart Keyboard SKU's - 9.7", 10.5", 12.9" already, then add on two more for a "slim" 10.5" and 12.9".

If the 12.9" can have its bezels dropped to this size I might just get the bigger one. The current one has a larger footprint than my 13" MBP because of the more square aspect ratio.
 
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DakotaGuy said:
I think Apple will add a notch to the iPad so their devices have a family resemblance. If the notch made the iPhone screen better I think it would do the same for the iPad.
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Lol. Why would you think the notch makes the iPhone X screen better? It exists to accommodate the camera and sensors. The notch would not be necessary for the iPad as a small bezel would be acceptable due to the larger form factor and enough to house the camera and sensors.
 
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DakotaGuy said:
I think Apple will add a notch to the iPad so their devices have a family resemblance. If the notch made the iPhone screen better I think it would do the same for the iPad.
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If Apple decides to go with bezels as slim as those on the iPhone X, then the iPad will need a notch (for the same reason the iPhone X does).

It isn't that the notch improves the screen. It's that the slim bezels improve the screen, and the notch becomes necessary, given the current state of technology, for the camera and other Face ID hardware.
 
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Glad I waited. Once I saw my friend's 2nd gen pro with the 120hz refresh, I was extremely impressed. I finally updated my Air to iOS 11 yesterday after holding out and while it's more sluggish than 10.3.3, the extra features more than make up for it. The dock is really nice and I'm surprised they were able to make a pseudo-3d touch work for the control center. It also has a couple of new types of long press that let you peek files before than option to delete shows up. Overall I'm very satisfied with iOS 11 both on iPhone and iPad. The best version in years really.
 
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At this point a faster chip isn't the primary need for iPad. My 2017 12.9" Pro is fast enough. It does need 3D Touch, Face ID would be nice as would a skinnier bezel with bigger screen, not bigger footprint. I don't think OLED would be desirable because of burn-in issues and using it with productivity apps that tend to have stationary icons.

I do wish Apple would take apps more seriously and totally revamp Pages to be more Word-like with academic and professional features. Pages is a 3rd graders word processor. That could be a killer app for those of us that don't have access to a bargain basement academend or enterprise Office license.
 
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4K = need for more processing power. That doesn't mean that current hardware can't do it, but rather you're going to increase the possibilities for users. For example, I can do art and photo editing in 4K resolutions on the A9X iPad Pro, but there's limits to the size of the 4K canvas and the number of layers. Continuing to push the processing power will allow greater flexibility there.
 
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If that's true.. then I'm afraid to say Apple has started going the android way.. and instead of optimising it's existing chips, it's increasing the cores..

However, unless, it's not possible to get the existing chips the same performance due to lack of space in the chips, or something...

I was always proud of apple that that they never showed off their "cores" they kept their dual core chips for like 6 years I guess... however, in that last 3 years.. they shifted to 4 cores with iPhone 7 to 6 cores with iPhone 8 and now if iPad is getting 8 cores.. then that's another jump..


And I was actually so happy with the way they shifted to the 4 cores.. 2 power efficient cores to handle low power stuff, I was like "yeah! You android loosers, this is how increasing the cores has to be done!"
 
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I think they’re gonna have the notch on the iPad. I don’t think they absolutely need it, but since they’re owning it and making it part of the branding, I would be more surprised if it wasn’t there. The guestures that iOS uses for pulling down on the left or right side of the notch also become more uniform.

With FaceID across the line, I also think that a more major revamp to iOS is on its way. If just looking at your device is enough to unlock it, it stands to reason that they remove the notifications/lock screen step and move that functionality to springboard. Looking at my device and tapping the app I want to use is actually far less friction than the single swipe up gesture would imply. Which raises the possibility of seeing something like widgets or Live tiles for stuff like missed calls, recent emails, or current calendar events.
 
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I could see the notch being added to the iPad but I doubt a bezeless design or even OLED for that matter. That’s a lot of glass!

But faster performance is always welcomed. Depending on features I may just grab a reduced 10.5” Pro when the 2018 model is released though
 
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Markoth said:
eight cores will likely NOT produce performance improvements in most real-world scenarios, actually. Most applications cannot take advantage of that many cores.
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LOL! You assert with such conviction, and you are wrong.

Optimization is done under the covers by Apple compilers. Execution paths are selected also by hardware with inter-core synchronization rendered by hardware.

No offense, dude. But why don't you take the time to read before you comment?

"After all, we know that each of these CPU cores is independently addressable, meaning that nothing revealed so far indicates an active Mistral or Monsoon core (or cluster) precludes the other CPU type from also being active, opening the door for mixed processor scenarios. Apple could have decided to spend effort, either in hardware, compilers, or both, to segregate instructions by complexity and ultimately forward them to the core that would execute them mostly efficiently."​
 
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MisterK said:
I think they’re gonna have the notch on the iPad. I don’t think they absolutely need it, but since they’re owning it and making it part of the branding, I would be more surprised if it wasn’t there. The guestures that iOS uses for pulling down on the left or right side of the notch also become more uniform.
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They're not going to have the notch on the iPad because the iPad is not a phone. The X is expected to spend most of it's life in a portrait orientation. Most iPad apps pretty much default to landscape.
 
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Any word about possibly putting wireless charging into an iPad? Apple is supposed to be releasing a charging mat next year that can charge multiple devices at once. I don't know of any technical reason why you couldn't charge an iPad wirelessly unless Apple needs to stick to a metal case on the back. I keep Apple's rubberized case on my 9.7" iPad Pro so I never directly touch or even look at the back surface of the iPad.
 
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Markoth said:
eight cores will likely NOT produce performance improvements in most real-world scenarios, actually. Most applications cannot take advantage of that many cores.
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This is incorrect.

Five of those cores are designated for low power purposes, so arguably, under load this would be a three core device, with OS background tasks relegated out to some number of the other five cores. Oh, and those background tasks? Welcome to the new normal - even while you are trying to get work done, modern OSs are busy doing a ton of tasks in the background that would be best not stealing cycles from your app. Even the most boneheaded of single-threaded applications benefits from a multi-core environment.
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mrzz said:
kind of useless without real operating system able to run desktop apps ..
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Then Apple already make the perfect device for you, no? Why do you think other use-cases don't matter?
 
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