Apple missed me this year by not including the same screen tech on both sizes. I can wait for the M2.
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M1 iPad Pro Over 50% Faster Than Previous Generation in Early Benchmarks
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the architecture allows ipad apps to be used on macos now should the developer allow it. i dont see why the opposite wouldnt be true with these new ipads at some point.
Means Apple's chip performance increases are decreasing.
M1 is a rebadged A14X, i.e. TWO generations newer than the A12X/Z. Means each generation has only increased by 20-25% each. Awesome compared to ****** ass 'we never move forward' intel. But a long way from where Apple's chip increases used to be.
Also: I am sorry but. It's an iPad. not a Mac render machine. I have never for one second felt my 2018 iPro was laggy. Like... AT ALL. Never. So 1/3 less laggy-not-laggy is a bit... erm.. yea cool. Okay.
M1 is a rebadged A14X, i.e. TWO generations newer than the A12X/Z. Means each generation has only increased by 20-25% each. Awesome compared to ****** ass 'we never move forward' intel. But a long way from where Apple's chip increases used to be.
Also: I am sorry but. It's an iPad. not a Mac render machine. I have never for one second felt my 2018 iPro was laggy. Like... AT ALL. Never. So 1/3 less laggy-not-laggy is a bit... erm.. yea cool. Okay.
Even if devices get the same firmware version, Apple has historically released features that are exclusive to newer models.
Iirc, Siri was iPhone 4S only, Night Shift and Content Blockers were limited to 64-bit, active split view + slide over was limited to the 2017 Pros (albeit reports of early beta have it working on the 4GB RAM 2015 12.9).
It's entirely possible that some generations could get a bigger feature set based on hardware. What the cut off is, only Apple knows.
Siri was an App that was selling in the App store that worked on the 4 and Apple bought the company and shut down their servers. https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/04/t...ets-pulled-from-the-app-store-servers-killed/
Exactly. No reason it couldn't have been been on the 4 but Apple decided to limit it to 4S.
At least this time, there are genuine hardware constraints if they limit features.
Sentiment: "Limited OS and apps gimp all this raw power."
Flipside: Other manufacturers would kill to have this problem.
Flipside: Other manufacturers would kill to have this problem.
Whats the point of this? its not like it will launch Safari faster or type Word documents quicker. You pay for power you won't use, apps on the app store will not utilize this because they aim to support the widest range of iOS devices reaching back all the way to iOS devices still being support it which I believe is the Air 2.
I am going to guess its just good for rendering time for video editors which I am sure if they were serious won't use an iPad to edit their videos.
I am going to guess its just good for rendering time for video editors which I am sure if they were serious won't use an iPad to edit their videos.
This will be a huge difference between the iPad Pro M1 and A12Z versionsI won't even notice the difference*
*it's my first iPad
Even if the Air 2 is still supported, it's noticeably slower and laggier than even the A10-based iPad 6th gen.
At least for me, the RAM will help.
On iPadOS 13 and 14, I've been getting this on the 4GB RAM 2017 Pro when I have a few too many apps and tabs open. I've even had this happen on the MacRumors forums at one point although usually, it's the animation and media heavy websites that are affected.
MacOS is not taxing any Mac and has not done that for years. It is the apps compute requirements that limits the Macs. Similarly, it is the "heavy" apps that are lacking on iPadOS not iPadOS capabilities. The screen is max 12.9 which barely is enough for one "window" if you really are going to work with the machine so why ask for multi-window support?
Th iPP 12.9 is not for the average person just like the Mac Pro is not. Apple talked about "XDR workflow". I bet complaining in Macrumor forums is not included in that statement.
Th iPP 12.9 is not for the average person just like the Mac Pro is not. Apple talked about "XDR workflow". I bet complaining in Macrumor forums is not included in that statement.
Technically, it’s not a glorified A14. The M1 has a memory bus twice as wide as the A14 at 128bit. The memory DRAM is off to the side of the compute die instead of on top and it has 12MB L2 instead of 8MB. It also has all the I/O logic that an A14 wouldn’t have. And if it’s carried over to the IPad from the Mac with no changes, it likely has the hardware accelerated x86 logic too, that an A14 doesn’t have.
GarageBand does. It’s not too hard to get there, either. But, ever since I hit that limit, I’m more conscious of what I’ve got going on in my tracks. I’ll be pushing the new one day 1.
My Mac Mini 2018.
A big problem with GeekBench is the degrading performance you experience unless you close Safari after each run and then average them.
My 6th run score for the Mac Mini 2018
Single Core: 1143
Multi-Core: 5185
As a 6 core CPU i7 it did quite well.
Then again I would have loved to had this in an iMac or Mac Mini in 2021.
Mac mini (Late 2018) - Geekbench
Benchmark results for a Mac mini (Late 2018) with an Intel Core i7-8700B processor.
browser.geekbench.com
A big problem with GeekBench is the degrading performance you experience unless you close Safari after each run and then average them.
My 6th run score for the Mac Mini 2018
Single Core: 1143
Multi-Core: 5185
As a 6 core CPU i7 it did quite well.
Then again I would have loved to had this in an iMac or Mac Mini in 2021.
Will it though? Supposedly Jetsam in iPadOS limits app memory usage to 1GB DRAM.
Even the bloat-ware version works great on M1 iPad Pro lol. /sGreat - I can play Solitaire 50% faster!
Seriously, that's pretty much what I do with my iPad Pro ...
The thing with the iPad is that most people use 1 app at a time so the issues that something like a Mac has in terms of memory management are really not much a problem. Increasing iPad memory only helps a small number of apps that use silly amounts of memory (mainly video rendering apps) of which their aren't that many serious ones on the iPad bar Lumafusion.
So is going to 8/16gb really a big deal? Also, when developing apps you cant just make them for the highest spec that just came out. So most app makers will limit features for years until the majority of iPads have those specs.
Unless apple are coming out with final cut / logic that will push adpotion of large memory etc.. I dont know what to think of it all. It seems to me the only reason the new iPads have more memory is that its a feature of the M1 chip anyway and they are reusing parts.
I doubt apple will want Mac apps to run on iPad's because of the UI issues. So the extra memory won't aid that. I'm also sceptical of Xcode on the iPad since that might jeopardise apple's case with epic as to whether iOS is a multipurpose device. If you can build software on it what is the difference between iOS and Windows?
The big deal for me is the Thunderbolt 4 thing. The iPad just cant load in large photo / video files into Finder in the same way the Mac can. Its always slow and buggy. Solving that would make it more likely I'd edit video on the iPad.
So is going to 8/16gb really a big deal? Also, when developing apps you cant just make them for the highest spec that just came out. So most app makers will limit features for years until the majority of iPads have those specs.
Unless apple are coming out with final cut / logic that will push adpotion of large memory etc.. I dont know what to think of it all. It seems to me the only reason the new iPads have more memory is that its a feature of the M1 chip anyway and they are reusing parts.
I doubt apple will want Mac apps to run on iPad's because of the UI issues. So the extra memory won't aid that. I'm also sceptical of Xcode on the iPad since that might jeopardise apple's case with epic as to whether iOS is a multipurpose device. If you can build software on it what is the difference between iOS and Windows?
The big deal for me is the Thunderbolt 4 thing. The iPad just cant load in large photo / video files into Finder in the same way the Mac can. Its always slow and buggy. Solving that would make it more likely I'd edit video on the iPad.
I will enjoy it! You know Microsoft really stands behind their devices when they get a 14 year old spokes-kid to convince me they’re innovating.