Comment on Might as well get a laptop???
kautau@lemmy.world 1 week agoThey 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 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.
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