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Gurman: New iPad Pro and MacBook Pro Models With M5 Chips to Launch Later This Year
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I did the same thing - because of the redesign yes - but also because the RAM was the only issue with the speed of the device. I actually was noticing it in safari, because I use a lot of google docs for work (and the iPad native apps suck).
Thankfully the newer machines are not as RAM starved. I also purposefully bought the 1TB to get 16gb, although I don’t even think the software really lets the system use it to its fullest.
My 2018" iPad Pro is still going strong. It'll be 7 yrs old in the Fall of 2025 when these rumored M5 iPad Pros will be announced. Seems like a good time for me to upgrade. Or shall I wait until the M6 iPad Pros in early 2027? 🤔 My 2018 iPad Pro will be going on 9yrs by then. These things really do last forever.
Do you think we’ll get Thunderbolt 5 also on the regular M5 chip?
Being able to export a video in the background isn't a power user feature, or at least it shouldn't be. Not every point in that article is a priority for me - but I don't think there's any harm making the iPad more capable for those who want it, provided it doesn't harm the simplicity for those who don't want the additional features.
Yeah, I got the 1TB model to get the M2 with 16GB of RAM, and before that I owned a base iPad Pro with just 8GB, and to be honest, I haven’t noticed any difference. I don’t know if, in the future, I will notice it.
If I'm being honest, I'm not sure. I would like to think so, but I don't think Apple will do that in order to keep a bigger gap of a difference between the regular M5 and the M5 pro chip. It would probably be a couple more years before they let that slide down to the regular M series in the MBP. We will simply have to wait and see either way.
Yes. People don’t have to buy an updated computer or device if they don’t want to, but those of us coming from something older will benefit from the updates.
He’s a genius, not for stating the obvious, but because he’s figured out a way to get paid for doing so. 🤣
I got the A17 Pro model with Cellular/5G this past year, but I will definitely make that upgrade as well when they drop it.
Few "need updates every 1-1,5 year," but that is not the point. Apple adds the latest tech improvements every year to keep their products attractive to those folks for whom it may be time to buy. The rest of us just watch out of interest in the tech.
Apple already provides security updates for more than 7 years, they do not radically "drop hardware support." IMO Apple will probably just keep doing what they do now.
E.g. I run all kinds of things just fine on my 2016 MBP with 16 GB RAM running under Monterey. That is nine years old. Its big limitation is RAM, not the OS. I cannot multi-task on that box.
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iPads can't take advantage of the power, but if Apple want to keep putting faster chips in them for some unknown reason that's better than not. Go for it. It's is inexplicable, though.
Chips get less expensive per unit the more you order. It makes tons of sense.
When did they stop selling M1 systems? Add four years of OS updates plus two years security only updates and there is a good estimate.
Well, I mean, he didn’t mention Notes in EITHER article, so it could be that he’s completely unaware of it. Which, coming from a Mac, if he doesn’t see something called “TextEdit” he likely got confused.
On my Mac, I start an export, then bring Safari to the foreground to surf while I wait. On my iPad, I can do the same. If I weren’t used to the iPad, like if I primarily used macOS all the time and didn’t want to use the tool in the way it was designed, I MIGHT not be aware of Stage Manager and I may think that just clicking on Safari on macOS will do the same as when I’m on iPad. It doesn’t.
But, they accomplished what they wanted with the article. It’s filled with inaccuracies and half-truths and, whenever discussions like these arise, people will copy the URL providing the writer with those ever so valuable clicks. Anything even a few degrees less sensational would not have done the same, so I suppose it should be expected that it would be over the top and ignore iPad features to make a point.
Wow, looking at Notes now, seeing a loooooooooot of text in it. Wait just a second… YUP AND I can edit it, too. Maybe there’s a LOT of people that don’t know that Notes exists!
Although, it’s got me wondering what I’ve been doing with the text I edit in Pages, too. If that’s not text editing (can’t be, because he said a text editor doesn’t come with the iPad and Pages DOES come with the iPad), then I wonder what I’ve been doing all this time?
Thinner bezels would be nice. That’s probably the only thing left that could get me to upgrade from my M4.
Hopefully, the new standard iPad Pros get 16 RAM like the Macs. Procreate, Nomad, and even Shapr3D will not even open some 3D models if they are too large or complex and crash from lack of memory, which shouldn't happen on a Pro model. The 1tb and 2tb models are far too expensive to get just for the extra RAM. The Pro models should be able to handle these programs with no issues.
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Though it is most likely to be launched around October, I will not be surprised if it is announced at WWDC with the new M5 chip. There are rumors about M5 being under production. Also considering Gurman's latest words that it is 'in testing', it is very possible for an earlier launch.
Anyway expecting it to be a very minor change only. Will be good if all the models have 16GB RAM. As for the new MacBook Pro, not surprised to hear about it. It will be another device with very minor changes.
Anyway expecting it to be a very minor change only. Will be good if all the models have 16GB RAM. As for the new MacBook Pro, not surprised to hear about it. It will be another device with very minor changes.