Thats what I've been saying since the release. 2018 vs 2020 is just almost nothing. Sure, people will mention double storage to start with, double ram on lower models and as of now useless wifi 6. And yet, this is what we get.
Its literally
stop gap. The proper upgrade is coming later (hopefully fall) but this was a ****** one
A stop 'crap?'
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You are right but to me as "unreasonable" as it may sound to some I am not getting iPad until they improve the structural rigidity ie. stronger aluminium.
Some agree, some disagree but for that price point I don't want to risk it. So yeah, this update could have been much better but Apple chose not to do anything except minor things.
And for that reason I'm out for now. I wish it was different as my Air 2 is really showing its age but unfortunately it is what it is.
Yeah. PC World. UK. I always like pushing and pulling on stuff (no jokes, please) before I buy. Furniture. iPads. etc.
11 inch iPad Pro. Sturdy enough. Tried pressing down on opposite corners.
The 12.9 is ridiculously bendy though. Pressing down on opposite corners? BEEENNNNND!
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You could be waiting a long time for that one, though.
Depends on how much 'kick back' they get from the issue. If the whining gets louder they may fix it sooner.
Mind you, given the yawn inducing fixing of the Mac Pro and the outright denial of the Macbook keyboards...
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Certainly possible, but there sure have been a lot of rumors for A14X/mini-LED/5G going around for quite some time. Next March would be 12 months.
Six of one, half a dozen of the other, really. A14X or A15X, it doesn’t really matter much. Though if A15X would be on 3nm that would be interesting. I haven’t paid that much attention to TSMC’s roadmap.
It's the one that many wanted. But it's the waiting game. 'A-gain.'
Money for old rope, Apple.
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Yes, it is. The Mac Pro will still be the Mac Pro in mid-2021, and Intel likely won't have a newer chip by then. But it'll be almost two years old.
The iMac Pro is over two years old right now.
The iPad Pro can survive being a year and a half old.
Does it get the job done? Yes. Is it a fairly competitive CPU? Yes, quite so, actually.
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That doesn't necessarily follow. GPUs are fairly good at parallelization, so the workload will probably spread well to the eighth core, meaning all seven existing cores don't have to run at as high a clock as before.
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That's silly. The iPad Pro 2018 was a massive upgrade over its predecessor (which was already hardly a bad product). Buying one today is still a good choice. The 2020 is a small upgrade over it, but its main audience isn't people who already have the 2018.
Be careful not to set yourself up for disappointment. If you want an iPad Pro, just buy one. It's a great product today. Buying based on what might be in a future product isn't a good strategy unless there's something critical missing in the current offering.
The iPad is a decent product in 2018. But tech' moves on. People expect more (and we know what kind of 'more') two years later. At least they updated parts of the machine. The iPad is a great device. But, like the iPad 3? This is a 'must miss.' Wait for the next one. Some that need it now? Why did you wait two years?
Two year cycles.
iMac. 8 gigs of ram. Platter drives. Medicore low end gpus. Massive borders. It's really in need of a lick of paint. And that design is ten years old.
iMac Pro. Drop it down to £2k-ish... Phase out the silver model. replace the Vega withe 5700XT. Slim those borders.
The Mac Pro? *giggles. Great case. But that price...reality warping. Put a non-exotic board in. Latest mainstream desktop. A Radeon 5700XT. An 8-10 core intel (pending release.) Just 'normal' stuff you find on PCs. And a 5k external monitor. And a sane price. G3 tower days fondly remembered.
I liked Apple when they updated stuff more often in Jobs era.
Azrael.
