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What's Next for Apple's iPad Lineup
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Yeah active cooling would allow M series to run graphically intensive games better. I don’t play that game but judging by how low settings cyberpunk is on M1, I don’t have any hope M1 can last too long for gaming. I picked MacBook Pro exactly for fans and cooling so M1 won’t be throttled as much compared to passively cooled MacBook Air.
Granted, people with needs closely matching apple’s “intended use” will have the best result, but I’m not one of such user so M1 for me is becoming more and more lackluster by the day.
Well I look forward to seeing that. Many of us, as evidence from comments online, want an iPad with at least the capability to run MacOS. Frankly, I do not understand why some of you seem to object to this. That's the internet though.
My first 2 tablets were from Amazon. What would you expect for $100+?
I will agree iPad is the best product.
I enjoy my Samsung Galaxy Tab A9+.
Not that much cheaper than the iPad 11 on sale at Amazon.
Android and I get along better.
For me it greater resembles a touch screen computer.
I am low vision which would be my only attraction to iPad.
The multiple screen thing would be a drawback in OS 26.
I don't like it with Android when it happens.
All that said, I am eager to see what a premium Amazon tablet will bring.
My Tab A9+ is 8/128.
That much RAM doesn't seem to matter.
In the past, Amazon handled Fire OS different. It received updates but never a new OS.
My first tablet was 2/32 and I side loaded the Play Store.
It never slowed down because the OS never became more demanding.
Amazon also updates all their hardware 4 years after the item is no longer for sale.
For an Apple consumer, none of this matters, eh?
I doubt it as well. It would be very unApple to give me exactly what I want. 😜
I find it crazy that we have iPads with the same chips in them as Macs but the OS locks down so many things related to the hardware. I'd love to be able to use my iPad Pro to run my CNC machine but nope! Apple only allows a narrow set of device types such as cameras, audio and storage to use the USB/Thunderbolt port in that way on iPadOS.
It's one of the worst decisions Apple has made if they ship the next iPad Pro with 8gb of RAM. I mean they just can't do that.
What I want is a iPad mini Pro with no bezels, possibly slightly bigger. OLED 120hz, tandem ideally. I'm fine with the newest Axx Pro processor. We mainly just want the OLED lol...I'd love for it to be lighter but I also feel like I want better battery life
What I want is a iPad mini Pro with no bezels, possibly slightly bigger. OLED 120hz, tandem ideally. I'm fine with the newest Axx Pro processor. We mainly just want the OLED lol...I'd love for it to be lighter but I also feel like I want better battery life
It seems to me that iPadOS always heavily discards the memory content of apps in the background so that this does not happen. That is why there are specific apis that must be used for anything that is not directly a front screen activity.
iPadOS is a kiosk OS, vastly inferior in capacity to what a modern computer is capable of.
Does it not fill the memory before it dumps it? So wouldn’t adding more ram allow more data to be held before it dumps it?
I agree memory dumping is problematic for productivity, but I believe it’s all due to battery considerations since the battery capacity in iPads is significantly smaller than in Macs, especially the smaller iPads. I anecdotally find battery life in iPads isn’t great compared to MacBooks as well.
In any case, it looks like in iPadOS 26 there will be much more expanded multitasking and opportunity to push ram (and battery) to its limits.
I don’t know if my opinion holds any value but I feel the memory dumping of background apps has been varying with the versions of iOS (& iPadOS). Surely it’s all done to battery considerations but also because of price: Apple is cheap and adding a $1 memory chip is a no go for Tim’s margin.
I fail to see how iPadOS 26 will improve anything. For me iPads have small batteries, a toy operating system and are incomplete without accessories. MacBook Air are much better as portable devices and you can have them stand without a case
I'm not totally sure either. But I only make the point about adding ram being possibly beneficial because the other user said the OS can't utilize upgraded hardware (possibly meaning ram as well as processor).I don’t know if my opinion holds any value but I feel the memory dumping of background apps has been varying with the versions of iOS (& iPadOS). Surely it’s all done to battery considerations but also because of price: Apple is cheap and adding a $1 memory chip is a no go for Tim’s margin.
I fail to see how iPadOS 26 will improve anything. For me iPads have small batteries, a toy operating system and are incomplete without accessories. MacBook Air are much better as portable devices and you can have them stand without a case
iPadOS 26 is able to do much more Mac-like multitasking with seemingly limitless free floating windows, and certain background processes, which a lot of people have been pining for. But I'm wondering what kind of limits it sets, and I'm really curious what the expanded functionality will cost in battery life.
I prefer a MacBook for productivity, but I have an iPad due to the Pencil. It does its job satisfactorily for me.
With stage manager on and 3 windows (safari, streaming netflix and whatsapp), battery definitely drains faster for sure on my iPP, but ipad OS 26 has been rebuilt from the ground up for multitasking so should be a lot more efficient.
