If I don’t offer a feature I never promised, and then make a different product that does have the feature, the ACC complains?
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A12Z Bionic Chip in iPad Pro Allegedly a Renamed A12X With Extra GPU Core Enabled
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If I don’t offer a feature I never promised, and then make a different product that does have the feature, the ACC complains?
Excellent points. And this was basically confirmed based on speculation of yield rates of these chips. Intel is rumored to have yield rates in the 60% range, while TSMC potentially as high as 80%.
I predict we don’t see a new iPad Pro with A14X until next Spring or potentially WWDC 2021. I know Kuo is predicting this Fall but in light of current events I can’t imagine a new iPad Pro that soon.Who knows though.
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People who don’t have an iPad Pro, or who have an ipad older than 2018, get a slightly better ipad if they buy one today than if they bought one last month?
"Slightly" being the operative word here. Anyone who didn't have an iPad Pro prior to this would have been just fine buying the 2018. As others have indicated, the iPad Pro is capable enough with the A12X, and the camera is useless for the majority of users. Seems they should have just held off and put something more substantial out later.
Not surprised. Had to a buy a cellular 11" iPP last night for work, so I care less about this now than I would have if I was buying it for personal use. <As a work expense, I can write it off on next year's taxes...grateful I can do that.>
Considering I am using this as a compliment for remote work, as long as the iPP does what I need it to that's plenty. The extra ram plus minor price cut certainly helps though.
Considering I am using this as a compliment for remote work, as long as the iPP does what I need it to that's plenty. The extra ram plus minor price cut certainly helps though.
Yes, I forgot. Additional RAM is part of the bump. That’s a plus. I think it went from 4GB to 6GB on some models. I have a base iPad with 3GB. I must say that it is fine for basic stuff, web, mail, messages, iWork, notes, photos, etc.. If I was doing complex video or photo editing, it might be a problem.
It’s my impression that the IPad processors have outdistanced the software for years, but RAM has been an issue from time to time.
If it’s one thing I have learnt about Apple all these years, it’s that everything is done for a reason. The takeaways often end up being related more to how Apple is setting the stage for the future. Certain announcements and features make much more sense when thinking about what Apple will likely unveil the following year.
The rumours point to AR being one of the main focus for this year’s WWDC event. Perhaps the refreshed iPad Pro is a way of getting lidar-equipped devices in the hands of developers prior to the release of the iphone 12 later this year? The extra ram might come in handy for running heavier AR apps.
The lidar support comes with an iPad Pro, so that’s pretty cool.
I agree, there will not be another IPP release this year.
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And Wifi 6, 128 GB of base storage, better microphones, and an extra 2 GB of RAM.
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please elaborate? I owned an iPad 3. And the hardware was vastly underpowered for the Retina display. Nothing about this iPad is underpowered. Not in the same ballpark in terms of comparison. Another iPad this year? All rumors. And if the rumors are true, they also state it will be more expensive.
Go read some real world testing on the 2020 vs the 2018. The cooling system has vastly improved performance. The 2018 was throttled during heavy tasks for thermal considerations. 6 gigs of ram. Better WiFi. Double storage at the same price point. Solid update.
The bellyaching is strong in this community. Don’t like this model? Don’t buy it. Keep waiting for “next gen” while I enjoy the here and now.
So essentially they gave us LiDAR support and nothing else.
More ram and double the storage..for me both big deals
One month ago 799$ would get you a 64Gb 11" iPP with 4Gb Ram and a single camera.
Today, same 799$ gets you a 128 Gb 11" iPP with 6Gb RAM and a dual camera + LiDAR, so of course it's a better value.
This is a refresh not meant for 2018 iPP owners but for previous gens owners.
Apple already understood that most iPad users upgrade every 4 years or more.
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OK, but why? This LIDAR features are ready, both in hardware and software (ARKit 3.5). The ultra-wide lens is ready. The yield has improved enough to add the eighth GPU core.
I'm baffled that people seem to prefer Apple didn't launch any iPad Pro upgrade at all.
It's just a speedbump. So what?
I honestly laughed at shady.
Why should they have skipped it? To prevent people that can't keep their wallet in their pants from buying it? It's not like Apple had a big media event for this.
Not everyone has a Gen 3 iPad so it's a small incremental improvement with some extra benefits. Macs get small speed bumps periodically in a similar manner.
Yields on the part improved so the additional core is available now, pretty straightforward. There's no reason NOT to allow the additional core at this point but people would have absolutely melted down if they had kept producing the iPad under the old model number with the extra core enabled.
Where do people come from with this "a device that hasn't been upgraded in 2+ years ...".
The 2018 iPad Pro was released less than 1 year and 5 months ago, meaning less than 1.5 years ago.
The 2018 iPad Pro was released less than 1 year and 5 months ago, meaning less than 1.5 years ago.
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I guess they are really angry with Intel then. How do they reconcile the "k" CPU parts being better binned parts than the non-k?
That's what is happening here. The old SOC couldn't be produced in sufficient quantity for the 8th core to be enabled so they disabled 1 core rather than discarding much of their production. Now they've binned a bunch of perfect silicon and yields are likely much better, so they make a small tweak to the model number and enable all cores. This is how the whole industry works whether it's CPUs or GPUs. Sometimes frequency is varied as well.
People like to round up or down to make their outrage seem more justified.
Considering how underwhelming the new iPad Pro is compared to the previous gen, it’s probably best that Apple wasn’t able to host an event. The fact is, there really isnt much to talk about other than LiDAR along with a slight bump in ram and storage space.
