Comment on Might as well get a laptop???

• Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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+)

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  • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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    • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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      • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Absolutely, I’m definitely not criticizing the devices, I have an iPad Pro and the thing is very impressive in terms of computing capability for such a thing and light device and especially considering its battery life.

        My only gripe is with the restrictions on the OS. I’d love to be able to use Darwin on iPadOS the same way I do on Mac for local development tasks.

        With Apple opening up restrictions so we can use things like apps.apple.com/us/app/…/id1564628856 for emulating other OS’s it’s certainly a step in the right direction, but I do wish they would consider the other “pro” side of potential mobile computing users, one side is creative professionals (photo/video/audio/writing), but don’t have that same support for the development side of the pro world.

        Hell, I’d buy an 11 inch MacBook Pro or Air with an M series chip in a heartbeat, but it’d probably be easier if they just opened up the iPad to a local dev environment

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• rotopenguin@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If an iPad ran SteamOS, it would choke on running out of memory before Steam was done loading.

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• cron@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Thats both true and not really relevant, considering the iPad’s game library.

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  • Emmie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s why it is so frustrating, the OS sucks

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      iPads have been overpowered for a long time. Long before Apple Silicon came around.

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