Again, the demo was performing some very impressive operations on the images in real time, not just making sure the UI was responsive.
Re:iPad Pro
by wild_preference on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @02:18PM
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Sounds like you just don't understand the challenges of what was demonstrated rather than a lamentation of modern software. Like reading kids on /r/gaming complain that a game doesn't have unlimited draw distance yet have no clue why there's a limitation.
What exactly should people be impressed by, if not hard things done well?
Re:iPad Pro
by amiga-workbench on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @12:23PM
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I'm glad somebody else feels this way, when my Amiga 1200 runs smoother than most modern computers you know something has gone horribly wrong.
Re:iPad Pro
by theshrike79 on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @12:39PM
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Yes, my washing machine also runs completely smoothly. One turn of the dial and it has selected the correct program without any lag!
Apples and Oranges.
Re:iPad Pro
by amiga-workbench on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @12:46PM
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I just had my whole Mac lock up after beginning the extraction of a xip archive. It is absolutely unacceptable for the UI to stop responding no matter how much load my computer is under.
My Amiga never did this because the whole user interface was interrupt driven, it wasn't possible for any of the bloated trash running to deem itself more important.
Re:iPad Pro
by chipotle_coyote on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @05:17PM
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Yes, I edit 12000x12000 Photoshop images in real-time on my TRS-80 Model 4 every day. Kids these days.
I'm not saying it's not hard: it is hard. Programming is hard. Making sure you're not occupying the UI thread for more than 16 milliseconds per frame is sometimes a challenge. You have to use all sorts of scary stuff like "concurrency" and "threads" and "GPUs". But it's 2018: non-laggy UI's should be the baseline everywhere, for everything.