And assume we’re professional computer folk, who do complicated computer things. Let’s assume - as all the marketing seems to imply - that Apple wants us to treat these machines as primary computers. On a gut level, today’s iPad hardware feels about two or three years ahead of its software. Which is to say: For years now, the iPad’s shortcomings are all in iOS. The problem is, almost none of the usability or productivity issues with iPads are hardware issues. In fact, the iPad Pro hardware, engineering, and silicon teams are probably the most impressive units at Apple of recent years. These new iPads may be gorgeous pieces of kit, but the iPad Pros of 2017 were also beautiful machines - svelte and overpowered. But since 2017, with the release of iOS 11 and basic multitasking, you could maybe - just maybe - earnestly use them as potential laptop replacements. Just what the heck are these things for? They’re definitely excellent for hypnotizing small children at restaurants. Ever since the incredibly clunky - but oddly enthralling - version one. So they’re serious workhorses now, right? 2010 – 2018 And in ways most computers can’t,” they follow up, cryptically.Īs if to hammer this computer idea home, these new iPads even have a USB Type-C port and connect to - in a move that seems to rally against the very Newtonian fundamentals of touch-screen tablets - external monitors. “iPad Pro does what a computer does but in more intuitive ways,” they say. The new iPads are arguably the most beautiful (or at least beautifully minimal) compute devices ever made, and Apple is unambiguously positioning the iPad as the computer you should want.
Throw them in your backpack, a few hundred grams, big screen, cellular high-speed connectivity, all-day battery life. Actual Gibsonian, Stephensonian objects from the future. Super computers shoved into thin space beneath extra-tough glass. I’d say the power-per-cubic-millimeter is even more impressive. In fact, these new iPad Pros are so high-powered that they benchmark close to top-of-the-line MacBook Pro Intel-powered laptops.Īpple - Apple! - itself is hardcore subtweeting Intel via Ars Technica interviews.īecause: This is magic - getting this kind of power into a device so devoid of mass and heat.Īs Gruber points out, the power-per-buck is unmatched in Apple’s history. They’re a bit lighter, with nicer screens, and much faster processors. You know the drill, they’re here: Like clockwork, the sleek, new iPad Pros are here. I am bullish on the A-chips that power iPads as the future of Apple’s computers.
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