New M4-powered iPad Pro (2024) blows its M2-based predecessor out of the water
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- Jon
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- 13 May 2024
Considering the M1 iPads are faster than a Intel i9 chip....... I could care less how over powered the M4 is.......i’m more curious if iPads will loose a year of updates cuz Apple skipped the M3 variant.....
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- AnonF-1006353
- JBi
- 11 May 2024
Vegetaholic, 11 May 2024Both chips M2 and M4 are pure monsters rivaling top Intel a... moreIt's nowhere on par. Not even in their older geekbench 5 and it definitely won't be in real world applications and other benchmarks like cinebench or passmark. Let's wait for these first, instead of promoting blind false marketing beliefs. But it's the same thing everytime they dump a new cpu on the market.
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- Vegetaholic
- xQG
- 11 May 2024
Both chips M2 and M4 are pure monsters rivaling top Intel and AMD desktop CPU one or few generation back. M4 actually somewhere on par with AMD 2020 top desktop flagship CPU Ryzen 9 5950x, which at 2020 was considered as best consumer CPU on the planet with insane performance numbers, destroying Intel to pieces, 16 core beast sucking like north of 250w on full power 🤣 now you have something like this on 5.1mm thick tablet just not even 4 years later 😱😱😱 Apple Arm magic indeed
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- SShock
- AKk
- 11 May 2024
AnonF-1006353, 11 May 2024There are faster windows/linux machines than the fastest m ... moreThere is not a single more efficient machiine than M series powered machines. Period. Just battery life itself is a massive indicator that no one can match. Stop being a fanboy. Or shall I say hater.
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- Goatjo
- 7kk
- 11 May 2024
Increasing the single core performance takes the most R&D and apple is so ahead in it like 3 generations ahead, it's insane!
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- AnonF-1006353
- JBi
- 11 May 2024
SShock, 09 May 2024No it hasn't. It's not even remotely close to Mac... moreThere are faster windows/linux machines than the fastest m powered macs. Specially if you don't limit your perspective by biased fruit fanbase built geekbench. Just check passmark. Now go home.
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- GamingBrudda
- GXs
- 10 May 2024
SShock, 10 May 2024How can you talk about efficiency if OS does bunch of emula... moreMeant to say that to someone else named JFC or something instead of you, just a skill issue on my side
But having better efficiency compared to older chipset is a good thing either way. Apple’s emulation was quite impressive back in the m1 days, where many apps didn’t natively support apple’s new chip even when running on battery. They’re also trying to have as many apps support them natively instead of relying on emulation so there’s that too. I hope we get similar results with upcoming arm chipsets for windows but that’ll also depend on Microsoft alongside with oems making such chipsets.
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- SShock
- AKk
- 10 May 2024
GamingBrudda, 09 May 2024Once again, I was talking about the benefit of EFFICIENCY t... moreHow can you talk about efficiency if OS does bunch of emulation and translation of software? That's NOT efficient.
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- Anonymous
- nDy
- 10 May 2024
at that scores, it is the nr1 consumer Single core SoC
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- KariAyam
- C@V
- 10 May 2024
Lol, 10 May 2024most important is the Productivity, being large i hope it... moreyou mean MacOS
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- Lol
- C@V
- 10 May 2024
most important is the Productivity,
being large i hope it should get iPadOS.
no productivity = no efficiency.
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- Anonymous
- 70d
- 10 May 2024
Nick Tegrataker, 10 May 2024I'll be definitely looking forward to seeing what M4/M... moreThe latest iPad Air should run macOS as well. Maybe if the iPad sales keep declining, Apple will consider making the next iPad Air and iPad Pro models run macOS.
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- CbI
- 10 May 2024
Dr Mujeeb, 09 May 2024This jump was needed for them. Bcz snapdragon 8 gen 4 is sc... moreM3 already perfroms better than rumored 8g4 scores, and m3 is only entry level.
M series isnt as much efficiency oriented as a series, why would they care if 8g4 is more efficient? They would just make a18 to match it.
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- Anonymous
- xjH
- 10 May 2024
Always the dumb comparison apple makes.
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- Anonymous
- vaS
- 10 May 2024
GamingBrudda, 09 May 2024I also don’t get why people dismiss such improvements and s... moreCompared to a chip 2 generations older just to put up a facade of "huge improvement".
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- MasEnha
- y$c
- 10 May 2024
Nick Tegrataker, 10 May 2024"Windows on ARMS will fly this time because there are ... moreTheoritically yes, the first gen will not be good but maybe changed rapidly in 3 years if the market receptions are good. I would like to see my phone powered by full fledge windows at least 5 years from now.
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- potato4k
- KLT
- 10 May 2024
Dr Mujeeb, 09 May 2024This jump was needed for them. Bcz snapdragon 8 gen 4 is sc... moreWell, to put it more specifically, Apple is afraid of the Oryon core, because that was designed by ex Apple Silicon team who was bought by Qualcomm. X Elite and 8gen4 will be utilizing this new Oryon core. Meanwhile, Apple themselves is falling behind in GPU, being beaten by the SD8gen2 already.
Tim Cook is quitting in a year or two.
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- Goatjo
- NL0
- 10 May 2024
Increasing the single core performance takes the most R&D and apple is so ahead in it like 3 generations ahead, it's insane!
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- Nick Tegrataker
- Xp6
- 10 May 2024
JLC, 09 May 2024Apple is in panic. Why else should they release M4 only 6 m... more"Windows on ARMS will fly this time because there are finally serious competitive chips available"
I guess I'll believe it when I see it - There are a fair number of rumours about SD X Elite underperforming and Qualcomm is pushing the release date of this chip backwards which adds to the scepticism. Hopefully they (and Windows on ARM) won't let us down this time.
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- Nick Tegrataker
- Xp6
- 10 May 2024
I'll be definitely looking forward to seeing what M4/M4 Pro powered MBP is going to bring to the table. I do all the photo editing on my M1 Pro MBP but from the looks of it, even the regular M4 (10C variant) handily outperforms it in multi-core, not to mention far more powerful NPU (DxO Photolab, one of the photo editors that I use, utilises Neural Engine for noise reduction).
iPad Pro, on the other hand, leaves me with a mixed feeling - I genuinely don't think there's an advantage of keeping iPadOS on such a powerful machine. MacOS can run iOS/iPadOS apps natively and its recent UI design change made it more touch-friendly (iPad-like setting menu, larger buttons and icons etc), so this doesn't make any sense. To me iPadOS is useless because it can't even run a full-fledged version of Adobe Lightroom or PhotoLab even though the chip is perfectly capable of doing so.
And I know some of you will say "But iPad is a different kind of product compared to MacBook so it's not logical to run MacOS on it" - Think about it for a second, anyone who is OK with a half-baked implementation of file system and lack of proper access to MacOS' desktop-grade apps would be most likely fine with iPad Air running on M2 SoC. I don't mind iPad Air running iPadOS because it's more of a general consumer product, but iPad Pro? With all the amazing specs and cutting-edge techs it has, it doesn't deserve to be completely hamstrung by such a limited OS.