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Re:iOS 17 is available today by nlunbeck on Monday September 18, 2023 @01:58PM (#37559567)
My spirits are a little crushed as an iPhone 8 owner. But I know my hardware can barely keep up as-is
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Re:iOS 17 is available today by gerwim on Monday September 18, 2023 @03:49PM (#37561071)
Which is funny, because I own an iPad from 2018. Which has the A10 chip (which was used in the iPhone 7). Guess what, the iPhone does not get iOS 17 but the iPad does get iPadOS 17.
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Re:iOS 17 is available today by savoytruffle on Monday September 18, 2023 @06:13PM (#37562826)
often these disparities have to do with the iPad with a seemingly-same CPU having more RAM.
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Re:iOS 17 is available today by bdavbdav on Thursday September 21, 2023 @03:05AM (#37594134)
It’s a different hardware package too - id imagine the thermals differ significantly between the phone and the pad, and that you can drive the chip harder in the pad.
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