I'm kinda surprised (in a good way) that they put the A14 in the Air. But where does that leave the Pro now (with only A12Z)?
Or is the Z part of that processor so much faster that it's still got better performance?
Or is the Z part of that processor so much faster that it's still got better performance?
Eyeing the A14 vs. the A12X/A12Z, it look like it could be similar since there's 2 less cores for CPU and GPU but there's also a 2-year architecture improvements plus a node shrinkage from 7nm to 5nm. We'll see once 3rd party benchmarks come out.
This suggests that the new Pro will be significantly better, at least in the chip compartment. Otherwise Apple would've put the A13 to differentiate between the Air and the Pro lineups.
Yeah that's what I was expecting. Have any iPads (even pros) even had the latest year's chips before?
I wonder if the plan is to push the iPad Air up a notch into pro usage (would explain usb-c), and also push the Pro up another notch too even more into pro laptop territory.
It will be interesting to see how they peg the iPad Pro VS the new MacBook with apple silicon - which will they want to be more powerful? Maybe it will just be a difference of how much RAM is in there.
Going to be interesting in how Apple positions the new iPad Pro and the new Macbook. Dare they price the Pro higher despite it having iPad OS and not macOS?!
Yeah, I had a base iPad, before moving to a 2019 iPad Air, but with the price increase for the Air, I'll probably skip at least this year and move back to the base iPad series.
The iPad Pro 12.9 is already (just slightly) more expensive than the 13 inch Macbook Air - both 256GB.
Add the magic keyboard and it's a hundred more than a Macbook Pro 13 inch 256GB.