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I know "more cores, more speed" looks great in marketing, but the reality is that precious few apps (and use cases) require it, and there's a tax to pay on mobile devices in terms of battery life.

That being said, Face ID is pretty much a given, and shrinking bezels is awesome. I doubt we'll see OLED screens this go around though.

thats ok Even My 2017 low cost ipad has a great screen the Pro's even more so
 
Can't wait to see the price point on that.

Yeah on the one hand, a 4GB 8 core 12" iPad Pro would be as good a reason as any to trade in my OG 12", and let my aging Mid 2012 15" MBP soldier on for another two years, but I'm pretty sure sticker shock is going to put paid to that idea. :(
 
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eight cores will likely NOT produce performance improvements in most real-world scenarios, actually. Most applications cannot take advantage of that many cores.
This is largely baloney. First off you make a fatal assumption here that the user app is the only process running, it isnt. Further i fully expect to see iPads running more background processes as they advance AI features in iOS.

As for user apps if you understand GCD you will realize how foolish your statement is. If the app enjoys any attempts at parallelism it will benefit from those cores.

In any event every time we see indications of more cores in a processor we see these silly posts about apps not benefiting which simply isn't true. While not every app benefits any app taking advantage of Apples programming facilities will.
 
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There seems to be a collision course between the iPad Pro and the MacBook line that one day will result in a combination of touch screen, entertainment and productivity. I love my iPad, but I generally read books and watch videos and grab my mail. Any higher level productivity like document creation, photo or video editing, happens with my MacBook Pro. It sounds great having 8 cores is a great idea, but won't change the purpose of the iPad. Truly a fast enough chip with retina plateaued the usefulness of the iPad as anything other than entertainment, in my opinion.

Are there high end apps that will take advantage of 8 cores? How willing is Apple to eat into the MacBook or MacBook Air sales for a high end multi core iPad?
 
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eight cores will likely NOT produce performance improvements in most real-world scenarios, actually. Most applications cannot take advantage of that many cores.
Yet. You guys have to start thinking bigger. Bigger, faster processors will allow more complex applications to run and keep your phone/tablet relevant for longer. I LOVE that Apple builds in processors that aren't irrelevant when shipped and have some headroom.
 
Where exactly are you supposed to grip that rendered iPad?
The same place you "Grip" the current iPad Pro...you really don't. You either work on a table, rest it on your lap, or rest the edge on your stomach while you're lying down.

My hands are big enough to even "palm" the back with 1 hand.
 
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It’s time to put macOS onto iPads
I suspect there will be a "blending" of MAC OS and iOS over the next fe years. I instinctively want to swim on my MacBook AIr. ====The real question for me is why everything faster/better/shinier with Apple needs to be physically large? Once upon a time we had a phone that fit and could be used by one hand. We also had the iPad Mini, which is small enough to put in my jacket pocket. Lets get SMALL, please == I know Chinese seem to love Phablets, butt come on. Where is the design?
 
There seems to be a collision course between the iPad Pro and the MacBook line that one day will result in a combination of touch screen, entertainment and productivity. I love my iPad, but I generally read books and watch videos and grab my mail. Any higher level productivity like document creation, photo or video editing, happens with my MacBook Pro. It sounds great having 8 cores is a great idea, but won't change the purpose of the iPad. Truly a fast enough chip with retina plateaued the usefulness of the iPad as anything other than entertainment, in my opinion.

Then you're not doing the kind of work that the iPad interface brings benefit to. That's cool. I have no interest in seeing XCode on the iPad, because the experience will suck. I've totally given up on doing graphic design and music on my MBP though, because the iPad is just so much more immediate (and in the case of the audio stuff - more reliable) than a desktop environment.

I've seen plenty of people who rely on iPads for professional work, and I know vastly more who never will be able to.

Expecting the iPad and MBP to merge is daft though. If Apple had wanted to build a Surface, they'd have done it.
 
Yet. You guys have to start thinking bigger. Bigger, faster processors will allow more complex applications to run and keep your phone/tablet relevant for longer. I LOVE that Apple builds in processors that aren't irrelevant when shipped and have some headroom.

It's for energy conservation; if you have lots of low-power cores, you can easily park them when not in use and throttle right down.

If Apple cared about having lasting products, they wouldn't be so RAM-starved.
 
Yeah on the one hand, a 4GB 8 core 12" iPad Pro would be as good a reason as any to trade in my OG 12", and let my aging Mid 2012 15" MBP soldier on for another two years, but I'm pretty sure sticker shock is going to put paid to that idea. :(

Yeah I couldn't make that type of purchase. I just find an MBP is way more versatile for work over an iPad that would almost rival each other in price. Even though I imagine it would be stinking gorgeous!
 
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Turns out the pope is Catholic too...

But really I will be very interested to see what Apple does with the in house gpu!
 
kind of useless without real operating system able to run desktop apps ..

You mean the 12 hours i spent on my iPad pro last weekend setting up online accounts and auto pay and tons of other planning and budgeting in spreadsheets, for my relative (all the why using the iOS 11 multitasking and gesture modes to pull this off) was NOT DONE ON A REAL OPERATING SYSTEM?????

I am SAD FACE Right now, I did not know i was not a "real" OS.
 
It's for energy conservation; if you have lots of low-power cores, you can easily park them when not in use and throttle right down.

If Apple cared about having lasting products, they wouldn't be so RAM-starved.
These chips are not only about energy conservation...they are designed with AR and heavier apps in mind for the future, even if the future is only a 1-2 year product lifecycle.
 
eight cores will likely NOT produce performance improvements in most real-world scenarios, actually. Most applications cannot take advantage of that many cores.

Sssshhhh. You’re going to upset the Android users.


Apple processor performance is why so many developers are bringing higher-end Apps to iOS/iPad. Affinity, Pixelmator, Procreate, Auria....the list goes on. At least Apple is making an effort to distinguish the iPad from an iPhone by giving it significantly higher performance to run these Apps. On the Android side the OEMs seem to have given up on tablets (at least high-end ones). What incentive is there to invest in developing a powerful App when the tablets are all running a Phone processor?
 
I know "more cores, more speed" looks great in marketing, but the reality is that precious few apps (and use cases) require it, and there's a tax to pay on mobile devices in terms of battery life.

That being said, Face ID is pretty much a given, and shrinking bezels is awesome. I doubt we'll see OLED screens this go around though.
Video editing with multiple layers , multiple audio tracks, filters, and text can tax the existing pro. Batch processing photos can also put a lot of strain on the processors now.

While not my use case, there are some sophisticated 3d rendering applications and even games that can do the same. These are becoming quite powerful machines, and more people are starting to consider them over laptops for some heavy lifting.
 
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