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> The iPads Pro outperform MacBooks computationally.

Off-topic, but it's an interesting choice to pluralize "iPads Pro", especially in a sentence where it could easily be singular ("The iPad Pro outperforms MacBooks computationally"). After all, there aren't different tech specs on the different iPads Pro (of the same generation). They just differ in screen size, IIRC.

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Being fussy about pluralization and other assorted grammatical issues is something Gruber is known for to his fans. He famously (if you're deep in the Apple blog/podcast world) made a point of referring to the new Pro AirPods as AirPods Pro, which follows Apple marketing, but sounds completely ridiculous when spoken aloud.

Wouldn't it be strange to compare 'iPad' to 'MacBooks'?

That’s not what I suggested. There is one processor and RAM setup across all (current model) iPads Pro. There are multiple processors and RAM configurations on the various MacBooks Pro (ugh, that sounds terrible to me — I much prefer MacBook Pros). So if the iPad Pro processor (or whatever metric he was referring to) is faster than all the MacBook Pro processors, then it would be perfectly normal to say the one singular is faster than the other plural.

It would be like saying the iPhone 11 Pro has a better camera than all the iMacs (which vary by model, but none are as good as the iPhone).

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