Apple Unveils New iPad Air With M1 Chip, Optional 5G, and Faster USB-C, Starting at $599

[rui no onna]

well my original point was that storage is too expensive to begin with. Apple charges a lot for a storage upgrade.

Always been the case with Apple.

This reminds me of something, I find that 2GB being unusable ironically funny as about 14 years ago they sold computers with 2GB RAM and they were supposed to be fast enough to browse the internet, edit videos, photoshop , and multitask. now its not fast enough for an iPad... I do not understand how this works. Its the same tasks!

Software have more features now and those require better CPU and more RAM. 4K videos weren’t common back then either. Honestly, I remember many computers not even having enough oomph to play 1080p H.264 videos back then.

Also, fast is relative. Compared to a Pentium 3/4, Core 2 Duo is a lot faster. However, we’re used to stuff more or less being instantaneous now. Mind, we have old C2D XP computers in the office and even my 2017 Pro is faster at launching apps.

 

[MacBH928]

Always been the case with Apple.




Software have more features now and those require better CPU and more RAM. 4K videos weren’t common back then either. Honestly, I remember many computers not even having enough oomph to play 1080p H.264 videos back then.

Also, fast is relative. Compared to a Pentium 3/4, Core 2 Duo is a lot faster. However, we’re used to stuff more or less being instantaneous now. Mind, we have old C2D XP computers in the office and even my 2017 Pro is faster at launching apps.

I realise new things are unable to run on older hardware but sometimes its the same software doing the same tasks. like email or word processors. I do not expect my iPad 1 to run 4K for example , but if you would use it today to browse the web I imagine it will be as slow as a casio watch browsing the web.

 

[rui no onna]

I realise new things are unable to run on older hardware but sometimes its the same software doing the same tasks. like email or word processors. I do not expect my iPad 1 to run 4K for example , but if you would use it today to browse the web I imagine it will be as slow as a casio watch browsing the web.

It’s usually not the exact same software though. Apps get updated over the years. Websites now are a lot more resource heavy than before. In the early iPad years, you often just got mobile website versions. With 13, we got access to full desktop sites (for the most part).

XP + Office 2003 works fairly well on Core 2 Duo even with 2GB RAM. I don’t expect the same to be true of Win 11 + Office 365.