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Faster in what way?
iPads are ridiculously fast
Yea? Are the graphics of the ipad that good? They have iphone level chips right (except for the pro ones, but those are like $1000+)
They have laptop level chips right now
There is no more iPad, just pro and air, and the newest air has an M2 chip, though it’s a bit handicapped with one less GPU core
That being said, no, an M2 chip on an iPad Air is nowhere near dedicate GPU hardware like on these handhelds.
gfxbench.com/device.jsp?benchmark=gfx50&D=Apple+i…
As you said, maybe once you get into iPad Pro ranges with the M4 chip, but at that price point it’s way more.
Still very cool that it is even possible on arm chips in such slim devices. The future of handhelds might just be a lot slimmer an energy efficient if ARM really catches on.
If an iPad ran SteamOS, it would choke on running out of memory before Steam was done loading.
Thats both true and not really relevant, considering the iPad’s game library.
That’s why it is so frustrating, the OS sucks
iPads have been overpowered for a long time. Long before Apple Silicon came around.
Emmie@lemm.ee 2 months ago
iPads are ridiculously fast
Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yea? Are the graphics of the ipad that good? They have iphone level chips right (except for the pro ones, but those are like $1000+)
kautau@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They have laptop level chips right now
There is no more iPad, just pro and air, and the newest air has an M2 chip, though it’s a bit handicapped with one less GPU core
That being said, no, an M2 chip on an iPad Air is nowhere near dedicate GPU hardware like on these handhelds.
gfxbench.com/device.jsp?benchmark=gfx50&D=Apple+i…
As you said, maybe once you get into iPad Pro ranges with the M4 chip, but at that price point it’s way more.
Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Still very cool that it is even possible on arm chips in such slim devices. The future of handhelds might just be a lot slimmer an energy efficient if ARM really catches on.
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 2 months ago
If an iPad ran SteamOS, it would choke on running out of memory before Steam was done loading.
cron@feddit.org 2 months ago
Thats both true and not really relevant, considering the iPad’s game library.
Emmie@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That’s why it is so frustrating, the OS sucks
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 months ago
iPads have been overpowered for a long time. Long before Apple Silicon came around.