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iPad Pro Will iPad Pro Be Fast 4 Years From Now?
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The A8X will still be considered fast in 4 years. The A8x still is faster than its competition. The A9X is blistering faster and has no competition so absolutely, the Pro will be fast in four years. It's the halo device now for the brand, all the other iPads will need to catch up and that will be done incrementally. Apple already decided to not change the Air 2 for this year. Apple will never let the standard iPad rival it's Pro. The Apple pecking order has changed and the standard iPad will no longer get the newest technology as it did before.
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That depends. If iPP is successful then yes. If the consumption heavy side says it's too big and the productivity side says iOS doesn't meet their needs and the device becomes a Mac Pro type niche product then I'm not convinced the 9.7" iPad will lag as far as technology goes. For this year I think Apple wanted the iPP to be the star of the show and since the Air 2 got all iOS 9 features there wasn't really a need to upgrade it (I use mine every day and it runs iOS 9 just fine with no lag). Also I think Apple is probably moving iPads to a cycle where they're updated every other year. I don't think there's a compelling reason to update every year.
I strongly disagree.
I still whip through things on my 2008 iMac. My 2011 iPad 2 slowed to a crawl by 2014. So far, that means the iPad had a life expectancy of 3 years, and my Mac one of 7 years. I hope it to be 8 years, touch wood.
I think this would actually make sense and it would probably match what most consumers are doing. I think people people keep their iPads for longer than 2 years actually. Especially the iPad Pro will work just fine in 3 or 4 years.
Up until now the main limiting factor for all iOS devices was the installed RAM. I can live with a slower device but not with one which crashes continuously due to the lack of RAM (remember iPad 1? it got crippled after the second year just because it had only 256 MB of RAM). The good thing is the iPad Pro has 4 GB of RAM so I am confident that will be satisfactory for more than a couple of years.
The reality is that the first iPad that wasn't slow at launch was the 4. And the Air/Mini 2 is the first one with any kind staying power.
It will get progressively slower with each new iOS. If you want it to be fast like it is in 2015, don't upgrade beyond iOS 9
The battery will hardly have an capacity left after 4 years.
And the IPad Air 2 is still future proof and will still be very powerful for a least 3/4 years as well!!
I don't see why Apple would restrict the air just because the pro exists. The mini 4 is as fast as an air2. Some people simply want a smaller iPad. The pro sells not because it is fast, but because it is large and agprguably more productive because of the size, plus has pencil support. When air 3 surely gets pencil support and A9X next year, iPad pro will still be larger and likely to get a processor bump.
Wrong, actually the IPad Air 2 is a lot more faster and more powerful then the Mini 4 because the Air 2 has the A8X(which is very powerful) and the mini 4 has the A8 chip which is found in the IPhone 6 and 6 plus and the A8X is more powerful then the A8 chip in the Mini 4.
So overall the IPad Air 2 is a lot more faster and more powerful then the Mini 4, just look at the benchmarks!
I owned the iPad 1/2/3/Air. The 1 was extremely slow from the moment it was shipped. The 2 was barely adequate. The 3 was actually a regression as it got no real speed boost and had 4x the pixels (beefing up the GPU but not the CPU meant that it performed fairly poorly). The 4 was OK, and the Air/Air 2 were *great*. In truth, the Air today feels just as good, if not better than it did at launch. It only really suffers in comparison because of how little RAM it shipped with (which was just as much of an issue at launch as it is today).
I bet the Air stops getting an X class processor. I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually stopped doing X class processors entirely, for that matter. Once the speed gets high enough, it just doesn't matter. Clock it up a little for the bigger chassis and move on.
Possibly. Didn't they start doing X chips to support the larger resolution of the iPad vs iPhone though? So it was mostly GPU grunt for more pixels. That'll still be a requirement for iPad Air 3. Maybe iPad pro will get Y chips?
From a production point of view it could make sense for the pro to lead with a new chip - lower volumes than iPad Air/mini and iPhone will let them iron out kinks, the ramp up production the following year and let that trickle down into iPad Air and possibly iPad mini, then have the usual low end iPad Air/mini with whatever they sweep up off the floor of the processor plant.
The Mini has he same pixel count. And it doesn't have that many more pixels than a 6+ for that matter.
From experience, the latest iOS is not forgiving running on idevices 4 years old. OS X is much more responsive , especially with a SSD.
Even on devices that are 2 years old iOS suffers...
Go the MBA, great machine.
Even on devices that are 2 years old iOS suffers...
Go the MBA, great machine.
Though I can see each updated iOS's becoming progressively more demanding, I wouldn't worry about the Pro's powerful hardware being outpaced too quickly
Reason being, my outdated 16Gb iPad Air 1, with hardware specs barely a fraction of the Pro's, is running the newest iOS 9.1 without a problem.EDIT: Before someone says 'their' iPad Air 1 completely lags on iOS 9 (and there's a thread somewhere that covered this), 'my' Air 1 seriously runs fine, no lag, no stutter.
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Your iPad Air lags on iOS 9.1, I mean mine does, wait who cares.
MBA seriously? No thanks I can't read any font on that screen.
Really if it's slow in fours years sell it and get another one. Probably could get $200 for it. By then maybe apple drops the price of the new one to 699.99.
MBA seriously? No thanks I can't read any font on that screen.
Really if it's slow in fours years sell it and get another one. Probably could get $200 for it. By then maybe apple drops the price of the new one to 699.99.