iPad Pro 10.5 for Software Development

Re:iPad Pro 10.5 for Software Development by nailer on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @11:43AM (#14805092)

Interactive latency. Being able to type and have it appear on the screen instantly, reliably.

> Decent PC or Mac with SSD is much faster than iPad

Yes, but speed isn't latency and hardware speed is irrelevant.

My DOS-based 286-12 had better latency than my Surface Book and MacBook Air do, mainly because DOS has no (or very little) multitasking. My iPhone also has excellent latency as it limits the APIs available to background tasks, stopping the typical 'Windows Search Service' (or any other random background executable) killing foreground performance.

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Re:iPad Pro 10.5 for Software Development by JollyGiant on Friday July 21, 2017 @06:33AM (#14819349)

I'm sorry I haven't use Windows for a while but there latency, as you call it, is much better on Linux/MacOS based machines than on iOS. Switching between windows without waiting, multitasking all those, and more, things are much better on computer.

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