Comment by pickdenis | Hacker News Reader

Comment by pickdenis | Hacker News Reader

> My desktop would have shit itself.

There it is. There is a coordinated ploy by the industry to sell more expensive hardware: shitty software. I find it hard to believe that such simple multitasking (using compute-intensive software + watching videos) could cause a well-built desktop computer to slow down.

Since there is no alternative to inefficient software, products such as the 2019 iPad are praised because they can bludgeon through these tasks and still appear fast, but only due to their sheer power.

It's disgusting, honestly. Apple pushes iOS so much because that's where they have almost full control over software, and therefore they have full control over your device's perceived performance. This isn't even limited to Apple. Case in point, https://mail.google.com

What are we, responsible computer enthusiasts, to do about this?

I tend to agree that if his computer is shitting itself multitasking in 2018, even with photoshop or illustrator or whatever, then he's got the wrong computer.

I wonder what's the cheapest computer, with comparable build quality to the iPad pro, that also will not struggle with the same amount of multitasking (with the same kind of apps)

Less than an iPad Pro? Or more than?

As in, do you get more bang for your buck (in terms of multitasking productivity) with an iPad Pro?

>Since there is no alternative to inefficient software, products such as the 2019 iPad are praised because they can bludgeon through these tasks and still appear fast, but only due to their sheer power.

The iPad is the alternative to inefficient software. In this case, the inefficient software is a web page that doesn't just have to load the media you want, but the entire application to run it too.

It should be telling that a lot of shops use Electron, because even though it takes 500MB+ of RAM to run (for example) an IRC client, at least you don't have to download the code more than once.

Contrast that to a thin client devices that already have this feature, have had it for the last 10 years, and have it already done natively. This is why it should surprise nobody that iPads are "good enough" today.

I wrote that part of my comment in error. It wasn't my intention to blast the iPad's software suite as inefficient, but rather draw attention to the fact that the user's DESKTOP computer couldn't handle what the iPad could easily handle.

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