M6 iPad Pro Likely to Feature Vapor Chamber Cooling

[lostPod]

What heavy work processes ? I would really like to know as I haven’t found my iPad Pro capable of even looking at an intensive workload because of the software.

 

[ksec]

I was rather hoping they do this with M5 MacBook Air.

 

[indefinite]

One day, the base storage model will come with 16 GB of RAM and the 1 TB model will have 24 GB of RAM.

 

[smelly feet]

I agree with the "Why do we need more processing power?" and "Why don't chips run cooler anyhow?" sentiments. It strikes me that the world doesn't really need additional heat. And our phones/tablets/laptops/desktops are not the major source of chip heat..it's the AI farms that are generating all the heat. Time to focus on inventing chips that run a lot cooler rather than chips that need to be cooled. Maybe the Chinese can figure it out? They managed to make AI run with a fraction of the energy other AIs use.

 

[vmistery]

A "Pro" iPad should have an SD Card port IMO.

Whilst they’re at it I want a floppy disk drive built in.

 

[SanderEvers]

A "Pro" iPad should have an SD Card port IMO.

There is nothing pro about an "SD card port", SD cards are slow and break way too easily. An iPad Pro should have an M.2 SSD slot that's easily accessible.

Whilst they’re at it I want a floppy disk drive built in.

A 5.25" floppy drive

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

We keep enjoying the USB-C to SD Card reader dongles. Honestly, SD Card slots are a wasted input on MacBook Pro as this is meant for photographers and creative illustrators for those that need storage on the go. No one uses it.

Source?

 

[bn-7bc]

Haven’t we reached the point where we do not need more CPU or memory - just better code?
If just a few percent of the MASSIVE computepower (not to mention energy and costs) thrown into pointless “AI” chatbots were used to create AI’s that could massively optimize the code written these days, we could go back to anno 2018 hardware and still have much faster phones, pads, computers and what not.

" better code" does not help apples numbers quite as much as selling new hw. And "better cose" also requires 1000s of independent devs to spend more time on creating said code, wich does nor help their numbers eiter. Do you see the problem here? Very few has any incentive at all for "better code) and often they gave literal disincentives.

 

[bn-7bc]

ugh I fat fingered, and for some reason the delete fuction is no where to be found, sorry

 

[Rychiar]

A "Pro" iPad should have an SD Card port IMO.

But pros use cfx cards

 

[ZiBart]

Keep dreaming with the vapor chamber on the air lol. There has to be some sort of difference in terms of speed to upsell you to the "PRO" line.

You can just DIY $20 thermal pads for better performance on the Air. Then use an external heatsink or cooler pad for even better performance. I believe these hacks will make it perform better then the baseline Pro.

 

[Astuces iOS]

Give it to the mac, GIVE IT TO THE MAC !!!!

 

[BigKahunaBurguer]

Looks like 2027 will be a big year for iPhone and iPad

 

[Unami]

Am I the only one who wants to see them bring MagSafe to the iPad Pro!? It would mean much less wear and tear on the USB C port. (Alternately dual USB C ports would be awesome.) it would make the iPad Pro less of an anchor if someone breaks the charging port. They could either use MagSafe from the iPad or they could use the MacBook version. But either way the iPad is one of those devices that sometimes it’s pick up and go sometimes you leave it plugged in. But it would be awesome to not have to try and slot a fragile USB C port in every time you’re done using it portably.

I’d love that. Never understood why they wouldn’t use the apple logo in the back for that. but as someone else said, a second usb port would be even more “pro”

 

[subjonas]

So if the ipad pro cannot deal with the heat from M6...then also the macs needs a better cooling solution starting with the M6 Macbook air and so on since for the M5 Macbook air is too late

About time! I thought this years M5 iPad Pro would come with one. Although now that I think about it, the Apple logo has copper for a better heat transfer, since the M4 iPad Pro.

But now… now I think: what about the MacBook Air? It’s been demonstrated that the M5 consumes more power and need a higher heat dissipation… so from my point of view, the M5 MBA will be the perfect time to equip a vapor chamber to better dissipate heat.

Keep in mind, despite both being passively cooled, the 13" iPP and 13" MBA have significantly different thermal capacities due to thickness difference and one having a heat-producing display taking up an entire side. The difference is even more drastic between the 11" iPP and 15" MBA.

 

[emulator]

Haven’t we reached the point where we do not need more CPU or memory - just better code?
If just a few percent of the MASSIVE computepower (not to mention energy and costs) thrown into pointless “AI” chatbots were used to create AI’s that could massively optimize the code written these days, we could go back to anno 2018 hardware and still have much faster phones, pads, computers and what not.

We need more CPU and memory for the lazy ass coders and the slow compilers, imagine everything written in machine code. I had one in the 90s called Software Audio Workshop, written in pure assembly, the best piece of s/w I ever owned.

 

[subjonas]

Am I the only one who wants to see them bring MagSafe to the iPad Pro!? It would mean much less wear and tear on the USB C port. (Alternately dual USB C ports would be awesome.) it would make the iPad Pro less of an anchor if someone breaks the charging port. They could either use MagSafe from the iPad or they could use the MacBook version. But either way the iPad is one of those devices that sometimes it’s pick up and go sometimes you leave it plugged in. But it would be awesome to not have to try and slot a fragile USB C port in every time you’re done using it portably.

There is already the Smart Connector that can handle charging so alternatively they could just make a dedicated Smart Connector charging accessory.

 

[pdoherty]

Yes but the real world isn't stress tests. It's actually doing stuff

Running a game like Genshin Impact on max settings will make an M1 iPad Pro very, very hot because it's going full tilt

Running that same scenario on an M5 iPad and it doesn't even get slightly warm, because it doesn't have to try very hard to do it

Does it not strive for higher frame rates with the better hardware? Is it capped?

 

[pdoherty]

I agree with the "Why do we need more processing power?" and "Why don't chips run cooler anyhow?" sentiments. It strikes me that the world doesn't really need additional heat. And our phones/tablets/laptops/desktops are not the major source of chip heat..it's the AI farms that are generating all the heat. Time to focus on inventing chips that run a lot cooler rather than chips that need to be cooled. Maybe the Chinese can figure it out? They managed to make AI run with a fraction of the energy other AIs use.

That Deep Seek stuff that we heard about for a week and was apparently so amazing that everyone promptly forgot about it?

 

[teh_hunterer]

Does it not strive for higher frame rates with the better hardware? Is it capped?

Can't run more than 120.

 

[smelly feet]

" better code" does not help apples numbers quite as much as selling new hw. And "better cose" also requires 1000s of independent devs to spend more time on creating said code, wich does nor help their numbers eiter. Do you see the problem here? Very few has any incentive at all for "better code) and often they gave literal disincentives.

How much more would we pay for software that 'ran cooler'? Sadly, very few people are willing to pay. At least not until the price of electricity goes high enough to affect the cost of computing. The one thing we should be doing is to stop giving discounts to large electricity consumers, especially AI farms. Rather than offering discounts, their use should be taxed.

 

[pdoherty]

Can't run more than 120.

Looking at this article the iPad Pro M4 only was getting around 58-60 fps, so either there's plenty more the game can do to work the M5 harder (to get towards the 120 fps) or the game may be capped at 60 and further CPU wouldn't matter.

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[teh_hunterer]

Looking at this article the iPad Pro M4 only was getting around 58-60 fps, so either there's plenty more the game can do to work the M5 harder (to get towards the 120 fps) or the game may be capped at 60 and further CPU wouldn't matter.

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Genshin appears to be capped at 60 when it previously used to go to 120. In either case, M1 iPad furnace, M5 iPad cold, identical settings and performance.