Re:M1 iPad Pro: Apps Reportedly Limited to Maximum of 5GB RA...
by jdlyga on Friday May 28, 2021 @09:29AM
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iPad Pro: amazing hardware, but still limited by software
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Re:M1 iPad Pro: Apps Reportedly Limited to Maximum of 5GB RA...
by tomjen3 on Saturday May 29, 2021 @03:59AM
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Yes. It seems to me that Apple really, really wants the iPad to be sold as a computer replacement and likes to think the problem is how powerful the hardware is, which is an issue for approximately 0.1% of their users, when the real issue is that it runs a toy OS.
With Mac OS X on ARM, Apple needs to port OS X to the iPad, otherwise they should stop production.
Re:M1 iPad Pro: Apps Reportedly Limited to Maximum of 5GB RA...
by rowanG077 on Friday May 28, 2021 @01:09PM
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I'm not kidding when I say that I would pay a literal 3x premium for an Ipad Pro that can run linux.
Re:M1 iPad Pro: Apps Reportedly Limited to Maximum of 5GB RA...
by Google234 on Friday May 28, 2021 @07:12PM
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Linux should still be a subpar experience on the iPad. Apple is not going to write Linux drivers for their hardware.
Re:M1 iPad Pro: Apps Reportedly Limited to Maximum of 5GB RA...
by rowanG077 on Friday May 28, 2021 @08:39PM
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Well iOS is also a subpar experience on the ipad pro. Besides Apple does not need to write drivers for it. The ipad pro is just a macbook with no builtin keyboard and with a 120hz mini-led touch screen. Work on getting linux to work on it is essentially a few months to a year away most likely. Apple only has to allow users to run non-apple OS on it.
Re:M1 iPad Pro: Apps Reportedly Limited to Maximum of 5GB RA...
by theThreeTuples on Friday May 28, 2021 @01:47PM
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These things are a trade off.
Developers should be targeting a platform rather than the hardware. Why would the user be concerned about the app pegging their ram and how to deal with it.