If there are M4 coming, there will be new studios dropping in the event as well. It’s unlikely they would debut M4 on iPad alone.
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Apple Event Rumors: iPad Pro With M4 Chip and New Apple Pencil With Haptic Feedback
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An iPad with a faster processor than the MacBook Pro would be a crazy thing to happen...
If the M4 is ready for launch, I agree, surely other devices will also get the new chips, not just the iPad!
Wow Ludatyk! I’ve been using it and this is exactly what I was looking for! An IINA or VLC for my iPad! A simple media player, versatile, that I don’t need to fight with every time I want to play a video.
There’s a similar media player that was just created by an indie developer, Jonathan Bui. It’s called “Video Player - PnP and more”, but due to it being a new app, it’s still not as polished as the one you’re referring to. But I’ll leave the link in case that someone wants to give it a try. It’s pretty functional even without the in-app purchase, but in case you’re interested, it’s just a one-time purchase of 6 bucks.
Video Player - PIP and more
Play a variety of videos with powerful features such as Picture-in-Picture all wrapped in an easy-to-use interface. FEATURES Versatile media support Play a variety of popular media codecs such as H264, H265, AV1, VP8, and VP9 and file formats such as AVI, MP4, WEBM, MKV. 4K and HDR playback...
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I find it VERY hard to believe Apple debuts the M4 in an iPad. I think Gurman is losing it.
I won't be in the market for a new iPad (I'm happy with mine), but I can't wait for this event.
I LOVE the iPad and am really curious if the changes coming are going to be significant (I doubt it, as mature as the product already is).
Of all Apple products, the iPad is the one that excites me the most/has the most room for refinement, besides the VisionPro, of course.
I LOVE the iPad and am really curious if the changes coming are going to be significant (I doubt it, as mature as the product already is).
Of all Apple products, the iPad is the one that excites me the most/has the most room for refinement, besides the VisionPro, of course.
Personally I’d not be surprised if we now receive:
iPad mini - with A17 Pro (or a cut version - A17)
iPad Air (incl. 12.9”) - with M3
iPad - with A16 (possibly with laminated display, but most likely not)
new Apple Pencil - backwards compatible
new iPad Pros with M4 and some AI features would be unveiled at WWDC with new iPadOS
iPad mini - with A17 Pro (or a cut version - A17)
iPad Air (incl. 12.9”) - with M3
iPad - with A16 (possibly with laminated display, but most likely not)
new Apple Pencil - backwards compatible
new iPad Pros with M4 and some AI features would be unveiled at WWDC with new iPadOS
How can we have a windows 11 with a variety of AI in use with intel pro processors without NPU, and then speculate Apple implementing AI is so dependent on the M4's NPU? Yes some things can be speeded up, but it's Apple's applications and operating systems that need the love.
Windows AI NPUs are different from Apple. The RTX 4090 has more than 1,300 TOPS of performance, whether for gaming or to accelerate AI tasks.
Intel's Ultra CPU's offer 34 TOPS overall (including the CPU, integrated GPU, and NPU), with about 10 TOPS carved out of the total for the NPU alone. AMD's Ryzen 8040 mobile CPUs bump the NPU performance up to 16 TOPS, and the upcoming Snapdragon X-Elite has 45 TOPS.
Apple's A17 Pro/M2 Ultra are the only Apple silicon products that have somewhat sufficient NPUs. The rest is basic and will rely on cloud AI.
Well, I’m glad I can be of some assistance. I was thinking of doing the In-App purchase for the app… specifically for the Video Quality processing, but was told ”the differences can be subtle if video is already high resolution.”
Um.. I use a combination of NPlayer, Infuse and OutPlayer… I think I’m content with just those.
I paid for both NPlayer Plus and Infuse (subscription), only reason why I went with OutPlayer because both apps are poor when it comes to external display support.
Makes totally sense, especially from cost perspective, since M3 chips are too expensive to manufacture on the current node process.
If anything. M4 iPads next month. M4 Studio in WWDC.
LOL! Not Tim Cook, but actually Steve Jobs, who very clearly positioned iPad as a device in between an iPhone and a MacBook.
But hey, to each his own, no one is “wrong” in how they choose to use, and what they desire from their Apple devices. Personally I don’t find it frustrating switching between iPadOS and macOS — it’s great cognitive exercise for the brain as we grow in years.
”Full wallet?” Yes that is wise. But then again Apple isn’t forcing us to buy expensive pro versions of both iPad and MacBook. “Air” models are just as functional and less costly.
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I’m surprised at how little attention this hardware flaw has received. Your logic makes sense and I suspect Gurman is right. But why ship the M3 MacBook Air? The flaw was published after the Halloween event but before the MacBook Air launch. Also, as much as I would like a MacPad, fixing this flaw is a more likely reason for rushing the M4 to market.
This would be great. Then follow up with the M4 Mac Studio i want so bad.
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My wild guess: M4 wasn't quite ready for MBair launch... and may not be ready for the iPad launch either... and may not even be able to close the "unfixable" hole. I don't know- just speculating.
In all of history, when a business is made aware that something they are selling can do harm to their customers, they've generally weighed ceasing to sell that product(s) and killing their own revenue flow vs. how much they best guess they would pay out in a future settlement for choosing to keep selling anyway. Since settlements are almost always pennies on the dollars, they almost always keep selling anyway and deal with the settlement when it gets to that (usually many years later).
However, to minimize that future settlement, they then make moves ASAP to transition away from continuing to "sell anyway" to basically wind down the ever-growing size of the settlement that will likely follow.
If all that applies here- and it seems it must but I'm no insider or lawyer- and M4 can close that hole (which I don't know- just assuming they addressed the "unfixable"), it seems perfectly logical that all M3 and A-series stuff with the "unfixable" hole keeps right on selling... until M4-tier can replace it all... which- as I offered in my wild guess- is probably no sooner than maybe end of year if Apple mad scrambles to get it all switched that quickly.
All just best guess speculation. I could be very wrong about it... including that M4 closes the hole. In trying to rationalize how M4 could launch in iPads vs. saving that technology for iPhones which "must be first no matter what because all things start with iPhone, blah, blah, blah", this is one somewhat unique circumstance that could easily override traditional schedules & normal order of releases (because lots of future cost is involved)... of EVERYTHING... not just iPad or Macs or iPhone. Everything with an unfixable hole should be turned over ASAP.
TBD.
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While I would doubt this kind of significant upgrade from Apple a few years ago, with the current industry headwinds they are facing, I could seeing Apple feeling the need to make this kind of splash to sell iPad Pros. After all, their goal is to sell devices and if that have a wow product in the stale iPad lineup, they may just sway some people on the fence.
I think the M3 transition is complete. Rumors are the Mac Studio, Mac mini, and Mac Pro will skip the M3 family. Since those are the only computers not running the M3 family, then that means there aren’t any more M3 announcements left, except maybe the iPad Air. But that’ll happen simultaneously with the iPad Pros.
Who spread the rumors that was the case? Mark Gurman right? Apple hasn’t implied that was what they were doing.
It does make sense if this is Apple’s start of ‘the year of AI’. It could be odd if they introduce new iPads without all that AI computing power they’re hinting at. 🤷🏻♂️
One can hope😉
Like last year was the year of Apple's headset. The industry cried please save us Apple as only you can because everyone else if floundering and haven't convinced consumers. Well AI is another topic that consumers aren't sold on.