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Re:iPad Pro M1 by KabirKwatra on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:29PM (#26881146)
Apple markets the iPad as a computer, so we can compare it to competing touchscreen laptops.
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Re:iPad Pro M1 by my123 on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:49PM (#26881452)
A dual-core Cortex-A9 with 1GB of RAM chokes at almost everything today even when updated.

Source: Surface RT today is still getting security updates. And will continue to get them until 2023. However, it doesn’t matter much in practice. And that’s a quad-core Cortex-A9 clocked 400MHz higher with twice the RAM.

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Re:iPad Pro M1 by FearlessNebula on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:57PM (#26882372)
The iPad 3 was not being marketed as a computer like the new ones are
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