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What are you getting?

  • Nothing!

    Votes: 333 49.1%
  • MacBook Air

    Votes: 54 8.0%
  • Mac mini

    Votes: 64 9.4%
  • iPad Pro 11”

    Votes: 150 22.1%
  • iPad Pro 12.9”

    Votes: 117 17.3%

  • Total voters
    678
Oct 27, 2017
7,466
I have no interest in playing those games on glass. Your tablet doesn't rival consoles without a real input method.

Gimme the price. I want one.
 

kiguel182

Member
Oct 31, 2017
9,440
I'm afraid of the price lol

This is definitely more powerful than the air. They should really start using these chips for everything.
 
Oct 25, 2017
3,789
Dear Apple, if you want to be taken seriously against laptops you cannot continue to handicap your device with up-scaled phone interfaces. All that power and I still can't even post on ResetEra without some awkward back and forth between a keyboard and tapping on the screen, so I would never do it. That's why iPad is not a serious computing device.
 

Doc Holliday

Member
Oct 27, 2017
5,809
My guess is that RAM will be the achilles heel of the iPad Pro. You can have an amazing processor and stuff, but, without ram to back it up, DESKTOP apps will still be limited.

I've never had a moment on my ipad pro when I thought "Shit I wish I had more ram" and i use it for really high res illustrations. Shit, procreate even records every stroke as im drawing so i can make videos of the progress.
 

flyover

Member
Oct 26, 2017
834
That guy enunciated like he was at a poetry slam when he talked about D'Angelo Russell's sweaty face.
 

Stop It

Bad Cat
Member
Oct 25, 2017
6,349
Yes, that iPad Pro is going to be bought.

Once Sky update their range that is as I get significant money off :)
 

Aiii

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Member
Oct 24, 2017
8,178
I'm afraid of the price lol

This is definitely more powerful than the air. They should really start using these chips for everything.
I'm hoping it will be same price or very near. All in all, it's all upgraded specs, but it's pretty much equal to where the old Pro was. Screen is a bit bigger, but the CPU upgrade over the iPhone is the same, still a 120hz LCD, etc.
 
Oct 25, 2017
5,846
Has Apple designed their own "real" game controller yet? I feel like if they did it would be huge for gaming on iPad

Nope. They really should hire someone away from Microsoft or Sony and just give them a few million a quarter to do stuff like that. They'd absolutely be an excellent contender in the games space but they don't have anyone there who really cares about it.
 

Mindwipe

Member
Oct 25, 2017
5,197
London
The iPad has a lot of grunt, but it still has no mouse support, a crippled accessible filesystem, and runs iOS. It's not going to be able to do the use cases that power would help with unless those change.
 

badcrumble

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,730
Apple really needs to take gaming seriously when it comes to the control side of things. Issuing some sort of Switch-style clip-on controllers (and making them compatible with iPhones *and* iPads *and* AppleTV) might honestly go somewhere (though it's not just the control issue, the App Store itself is hostile to premium gaming price points).
 

mrtl

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
827
What does that mean for the layman?

Also, I wonder if it'll be powerful enough to output 4K to my UHD TV without lag or if I'll have to use 1080p non-retina to get a good lag-free output. Even my 2013 MBP couldn't output 4K mirrored to my TV without being so laggy. Only once I switched to 1080 did it run as well as when I'm just using the laptop itself.
It really only means you can output at 4k, no other technical implications whatsoever. Also comes with HDCP, so Netflix and the like will work. The GPUs in the new Mini setups aren't really that good (especially in terms of memory bandwidth), but I don't have benchmarks ready. Mirrored output should be possible, but don't expect 3D-applications rendered at 4k.
 

Deleted member 2474

Account closed at user request
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
4,318
Y'all even if this thing is $999 starting that's still better bang for your buck than literally the entire MacBook line