I have a 2020 iPad pro 12.9 inch. It's fantastic. It's more than powerful enough for anything I want to do. In fact I was perfectly happy with the 1st generation iPad pro I had before but it died in December and I absolutely could not wait for a new model.
If I'm not mistaken the 2020 models cannot output to a monitor like the new ones can, cannot access external drives like the new ones can, and will reload pages far more frequently, etc.
I love how you seem to know my exact use case...
All iPads can connect to external USB hard drives. Only the 2021 adds the ability to connect to Thunderbolt drives. Existing iPads can connect to external displays as well, and even the new ones still have limitations on how they work with these displays. Perhaps that will change when iPadOS 15 is released, but for now, Thunderbolt doesn't really add much to the iPad's functionality.
I got you but at the same time I think a lot of people don't realize that with the iPad you can use Sidecar. With that feature you transform the device to another awesome level.
You can kinda see this now with the latest iPhones. The “normal” white level is what you see using the device day to day. When you go into Photos and look at pictures that have been taken with HDR, the whites in the photos pop like they’re enabling the additional brightness for the content it’s required for, but otherwise you get the “standard” white.
You know, I was JUST gonna say… hmmm v12 on a trike? I’d STILL take it given the choice between a trike and a V12 on a trike.
They don’t really say that all the zooms in between are optical, though. Even the Camera interface by default has buttons to snap you between lenses (even though it has that ‘zoom’ dial, too).
Well, I can’t speak for the Luma Fusion users, but I know that, depending on the plugin, I can easily push my current iPad to the limit in GarageBand. In the future, I won’t have to flatten any tracks to continue working.
Hopefully. Or it could be that they’re just cheap and want to use the same chips in every device for economies of scale.
2018/2020 iPad Pros are still way overpowered for iPadOS and I expect that to remain that way for a couple years still. Remember the A12X/A12Z are more powerful than 90% of most PCs on the market as of 2018-2020 according to Apple literature. Rmember the performance comparisons between the A12X/A12Z and Intel based MacBook Pros… pretty amazing. Now with the M1 and the extra RAM, the iPad Pros have left the chat entirely.
and while I'm making predictions, the new M1 mac mini will be tiny, basically the volume of the chin of the iMac, it will have external power brick, possible the same as the iMac, could come in multiple colours and will either look like the current apple tv or a USB hub to share the same internal layout as the iMac.
Same here actually, I saw “open box-excellent” from Best Buy at $807 (11” 256gb WiFi-cellular). I have grandfather prepaid AT&T unlimited data which I can’t upgrade to 5G. So I don’t think I can get advantage of it. I can’t wait to get it on Friday.
Man, a smaller Mini would be a dream in my performance DJ rig setup. I currently run a headless 2011 Mini and while it is diminutive enough, an even smaller footprint would always be appreciated. Not to forget the massive power upgrade it would be to go from an i5 to an M2!
How would the new ones access drives differently than 2020 models? Other than read/write speeds, is there something a 2021 would do that my 2020 can't? I haven't experienced any issues when using the USB-C dongle and a WD external to move files back and forth.
reload pages more frequently? that is hardly an issue to justify upgrading. Personally, I've had exactly zero problems with that on my 2020 iPad pro.
The only difference would be if you want to use a Thunderbolt drive. Those won't work on anything earlier than the 2021 Pro.
Same, though I didn't get as much of a discount as you did, I'm very happy with my 2020 iPad Pro
Looking forward to years of heavy usage again! Love these discounts. For my usage, I would have been fine with a mini 5.I agree with this. My iPad usage is fairly casual because some apps that I need are available in full only in MacOS, so my work computing gets done on a 2018 15.4" MBP. I don't upgrade devices often, and when I do I'm rarely overwhelmed with the improvements in the new device.
That's just one example of the many benefits of having extra RAM. If you don't need more than 6GB of RAM then more power to you.
The Thunderbolt port now allows the iPad to be used with high speed external storage and even a dock, meaning peripheral use that is closer to a Mac than ever before.
