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Re:Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new M... by davidmurdoch on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @09:38AM (#43255213)
Why not? Honest question.
Re:Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new M... by 42772827 on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @09:49AM (#43255368)
Because there’s nothing you can do on an M3 that you can’t do on an M2. Or M1.
Re:Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new M... by davidmurdoch on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @09:51AM (#43255399)
But can't you do it faster on a faster processor?
Re:Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new M... by 42772827 on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @10:13AM (#43255707)
If shaving milliseconds off of your workflow is so mission critical that spending an additional few hundred to few thousand dollars is worth it, you don’t need a snarky HN post to tell you which iPad to buy.

And I’m not convinced that person even exists except in their own minds.

Re:Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new M... by davidmurdoch on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @01:01PM (#43257988)
I read M4 is about 20% than M3 in editing photos from Lightroom. That's seems significant.

I don't have skin in the game here, as I don't own anything from Apple. I was just curious.