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Gurman: New iPad Pro and MacBook Pro Models With M5 Chips to Launch Later This Year
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Okay, multiple audio sources.
That doesn't sound like a tablet specific thing--the iPhone and Mac could do either with the right software.
What else?
They are limited by software. This post sums up my thoughts well: https://www.macstories.net/stories/not-an-ipad-pro-review/
Yeah, but that's not a tablet, iPad specific thing. Okay, I agree--add AifFoil like on a Mac. Case closed on that feature (and again, that is not something specific to a tablet form factor).
Every MacBook Pro since 2006 has kept the same design for exactly four release cycles. This is the first time the same design will be in 5 since the aluminum PowerBook G4.
Time to start socking away money for that M6 OLED…
Time to start socking away money for that M6 OLED…
Excellent link, especially coming from Federico, who is perhaps the most noted iPad evangelist out there.
I take his opinion on all this above nearly all others.
I think people want the iPad to be a Mac-equivalent of a Windows Surface Pro which, if you aren't familiar" is a super thin, light, and small FULLY FUNCTIONING Windows laptop with touch and pen support.
Software most definitely is the key to make this happen.
Yeah, you are my exact point. You want an iPad to run Mac Apps so you can use Mac quality in an iPad factor.
That is not what an iPad was designed to be--you want that? You buy a Mac.
This is never going to change--ever.
So I think my thesis is correct--you people want Mac quality apps working on a 13 glass, touch first tablet.
That is not an iPad--that is a tablet running MacOS. Just buy a Mac.
"BUT I WANT IT IN AN IPAD FORM FACTOR!!!!"
Sorry, that is not how it works. Windows makes those kinds of tablets.
Or at least we'd like the option to use one that way.
Given all the changes to macOS over the recent years that have "iOS-ified it", and the now functionally identical hardware across MacBooks and iPads, it's honestly become almost ridiculous that there is no hybrid optionality.
He's the poster child for I WANT MY MAC APPS TO WORK ON A TABLET LIKE THEY ARE MAC APPS!
But again, it is a touch 1st interface not made for that.
You know what device is made for that? Big secret--it's even in the name of his website.
It's a Mac. Buy a Mac. Stop waiting for Apple to make desktop Preview or Text edit because it ain't happening.
Maybe calm down a bit?
All caps screaming is not needed
Your preferences are not necessarily those of everyone else
Be designed to use a mouse and have an arrow cursor as a primary pointer and not a half-baked solution buried in Accessibility.
Did you read any of the article I linked to? It's not about forcing the iPad to run Mac apps - it's about improving the fundamentals of the OS so that people who want to use it for more things, can do.
I absolutely do not want it to run MacOS - I just want it to be a better iPad. The things in that article are a good start.
The original Mac had a smaller screen than that. Apple had a 13" monitor for the early desktop Macs as well. System 7 has a full file system, networking, multiple drives and serial ports.
So why is an iPad so limited compared to a Mac IIci?
Since all your posts defend the iPad staying a pretty dumb tablet for casual single-tasking uses, then explain why it needs one of the most powerful chips on the market? Was it originally designed to have the same performance as a MacBook?
A brilliant point
If one is an OG iPad vision purist (casual single tasking uses), literally any iPad from the last about 6 years is perfect. Pick your screen size and you're good for a LONG time.
If we are being honest, if they'd put more RAM in it at the time, one could still be using a 2016 iPad Pro 9.7" just fine.
(OG iPP was my favorite iPad of all time -- still)
Agree completely.
I'd also add, if we look back at the All Thing D Steve Jobs interview from 2010 - he makes the analogy that PCs (meaning laptops/desktops) will be the "trucks" of the future, and the post-PC devices, i.e. the iPad, will be the "cars".
It's quite clear that the original vision of the iPad was that, once hardware and software matured sufficiently, it would be a replacement for a PC/Mac for the vast majority of people. I don't think this is consistent with the argument some people try to make, which is that the iPad should never be able to do something simply because it's not a Mac.
I upgraded from a M1 to a M4 Pro. The M4 Pro is fast but it wasn't the jump from Intel to M1 for me. I wonder if the M5 will be much different than a M1-M4.
Sure - it is all amateur hour prognostications until Apple skips the iPhone 9 and goes right to the X. When the crowd went wild, I went wild right along with them.
One day...it will happen again. Maybe the M8 or the M9 get skipped -- or maybe they'll use a word or letter they've never used before.
THIS is why I keep coming back to MacRumors. I can't find out when everyone else finds out. I must know three days earlier than the plebeians!
I want it to be less restricted along the lines of macOS. So that iPadOS apps can be developed more easily. This system is often overlooked.
Many features in countries like the Czech Republic and Poland still don't work. I would like this to change.
First and foremost, Finder, normal multitasking, access to terminal and development tools, better support for peripherals, multi-user support, full support for external screens, installation of .dmg applications.
He wants Apple to force developers to run apps in landscape mode when the keyboard is plugged in. This is ridiculous
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Sure they are. Decisions to restrict third-party app sources, to require sandboxing, to limit extensibility, are entirely in software. You can't do something like Moom or iStat Menus on iPadOS. You can't try a third-party approach to window management; either Apple provides it or you're out of luck.
There's no hardware reason iPadOS can't be more similar to macOS.
They're basically a MacBook Air without a keyboard and trackpad, and a touch screen instead. They literally have the same SoC, even.
A great way to look at it.
Essentially we'd like the "tablet computer" to be allowed to be a more full fledged computer.
This is 2025. It's beyond tiring to see all the restrictions of iPadOS still present due to lack of effort from Apple, or, worse yet, for artificial product line segmentation business reasons.
So you shifted goalposts from "it's not because of software" to "OK, it is because of software, but Apple wants it so". OK.